{"id":77887,"date":"2025-11-02T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77887"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:57:22","slug":"apc-demands-probe-of-soludo-over-alleged-cash-for-votes-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/02\/apc-demands-probe-of-soludo-over-alleged-cash-for-votes-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Demands Probe of Soludo Over Alleged Cash-for-Votes Remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the Nigeria Police to investigate Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, over alleged vote-buying comments made during a campaign rally.<\/p>\n<p>APC National Secretary, Ajibola Bashiru, accused Soludo of promising cash rewards to All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), supporters based on their electoral performance, describing the move as \u201cdesperate and anti-democratic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the October 25 rally in Umunze, Soludo reportedly pledged \u20a61 million to each ward that delivers victory for APGA, and additional prizes for top-performing wards.<\/p>\n<p>However, the state\u2019s Commissioner for Information, Dr. Law Mefor, denied the allegation, saying Soludo\u2019s remarks were meant to encourage voter turnout, not induce votes.<\/p>\n<p>The call for investigation comes ahead of the November 8 Anambra governorship election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the Nigeria Police to investigate Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, over alleged vote-buying comments made during a campaign rally. APC National Secretary, Ajibola Bashiru, accused Soludo of promising cash rewards to All Progressives Grand Alliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77887","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=77887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77889,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77887\/revisions\/77889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}