{"id":78378,"date":"2025-11-08T21:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78378"},"modified":"2025-11-08T21:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:11:35","slug":"cjid-demands-arrest-prosecution-of-vote-buying-suspects-in-anambra-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/08\/cjid-demands-arrest-prosecution-of-vote-buying-suspects-in-anambra-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"CJID Demands Arrest, Prosecution of Vote-Buying Suspects in Anambra Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of those involved in vote-buying during the Anambra governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>In a mid-day report, CJID said its observers documented multiple cases of voter inducement and harassment of journalists across the state, describing the incidents as threats to democracy and press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation urged INEC and security agencies to enforce the Electoral Act 2022, warning that selective enforcement would erode public trust.<\/p>\n<p>It also renewed its call for an independent Electoral Offences Commission to ensure swift and impartial prosecution of electoral crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of those involved in vote-buying during the Anambra governorship election. In a mid-day report, CJID said its observers documented multiple cases of voter inducement and harassment of journalists across the state, describing the incidents as threats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78378","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78380,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78378\/revisions\/78380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}