{"id":78053,"date":"2025-11-04T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78053"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:05:02","slug":"nlc-decries-vote-trading-says-democracy-hijacked-by-elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/nlc-decries-vote-trading-says-democracy-hijacked-by-elites\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC Decries Vote Trading, Says Democracy Hijacked by Elites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has accused the political elite of turning Nigeria\u2019s elections into a marketplace where votes are traded, undermining democracy and deepening citizens\u2019 suffering.<\/p>\n<p>NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made the remarks in Abuja during the public presentation of the Report on Electoral Trust and MoU signing ceremony organized by the International Press Centre (IPC).<\/p>\n<p>Ajaero lamented that what should be a platform for expressing the people\u2019s will has become \u201ca trade fair of influence and manipulation,\u201d leading to poor governance, poverty, and insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>He urged journalists to resist political control and expose electoral malpractice, saying the media must serve as \u201cthe voice of the voiceless, not the megaphone of the powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ajaero commended IPC\u2019s collaboration with NAWOJ and GOCOP, describing it as a step toward restoring transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the media to uphold integrity as the 2027 elections approach, stressing that \u201cthe NLC stands ready to work with all genuine forces to reclaim democracy for the masses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has accused the political elite of turning Nigeria\u2019s elections into a marketplace where votes are traded, undermining democracy and deepening citizens\u2019 suffering. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made the remarks in Abuja during the public presentation of the Report on Electoral Trust and MoU signing ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78053","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=78053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78055,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78053\/revisions\/78055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}