{"id":73359,"date":"2025-08-16T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73359"},"modified":"2025-08-16T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:47:35","slug":"police-assure-security-ahead-of-anambra-bye-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/16\/police-assure-security-ahead-of-anambra-bye-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Assure Security Ahead of Anambra Bye-Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Anambra State Police Command says it has intensified security operations to ensure peace and order before, during, and after Saturday\u2019s bye-elections.<\/p>\n<p>The polls will be held in Anambra South Senatorial District to elect a senator, and in Onitsha North 1 Constituency to fill a state House of Assembly seat.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Tochukwu Ikenga said massive deployment of personnel and assets had been made across identified flashpoints and sensitive areas to guarantee a hitch-free and credible exercise.<\/p>\n<p>He added that AIG Godwin Eze, the Supervisory Officer for the election, has assured residents of adequate security and urged them to cooperate with security agencies, remain law-abiding, and exercise their civic rights without fear or intimidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Anambra State Police Command says it has intensified security operations to ensure peace and order before, during, and after Saturday\u2019s bye-elections. The polls will be held in Anambra South Senatorial District to elect a senator, and in Onitsha North 1 Constituency to fill a state House of Assembly seat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inec","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73361,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73359\/revisions\/73361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}