{"id":82794,"date":"2026-02-16T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82794"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:41:07","slug":"inec-concludes-training-ahead-of-fct-area-council-polls-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/16\/inec-concludes-training-ahead-of-fct-area-council-polls-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Concludes Training Ahead of FCT Area Council Polls Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has concluded the training of ad-hoc staff for the 2026 Area Council elections scheduled for Saturday, February 21, 2026, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p>The training, held across designated centres in the FCT, was designed to equip electoral officers, presiding officers, assistant presiding officers and other personnel with guidelines for the smooth conduct of the polls.<\/p>\n<p>INEC said the sessions covered accreditation procedures, handling of electoral materials, result collation and compliance with the Electoral Act, while participants were also sensitised on professionalism, neutrality and voter management.<\/p>\n<p>The election will produce six Area Council chairmen and 62 councillors across the FCT\u2019s wards. INEC reaffirmed its readiness to conduct a credible exercise and urged eligible voters to turn out peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies have also assured residents of adequate protection before, during and after the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has concluded the training of ad-hoc staff for the 2026 Area Council elections scheduled for Saturday, February 21, 2026, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The training, held across designated centres in the FCT, was designed to equip electoral officers, presiding officers, assistant presiding officers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2027-general-elections","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82794","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=82794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82797,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82794\/revisions\/82797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}