{"id":82922,"date":"2026-02-22T05:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82922"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:46:20","slug":"abuja-decides-2026-efcc-storms-lugbe-polling-units-over-alleged-vote-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/22\/abuja-decides-2026-efcc-storms-lugbe-polling-units-over-alleged-vote-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Decides 2026: EFCC Storms Lugbe Polling Units Over Alleged Vote-Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday raided polling units in Lugbe, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), over alleged vote-buying.<\/p>\n<p>At LEA School, observers reported that agents of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and other unidentified party operatives were allegedly distributing cash to voters before EFCC officials arrived to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been confirmed as of press time, though minor scuffles were reported following attempts by suspected thugs to disrupt the process. Election monitors said they were closely watching developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday raided polling units in Lugbe, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), over alleged vote-buying. At LEA School, observers reported that agents of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and other unidentified party operatives were allegedly distributing cash to voters before EFCC officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82922","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=82922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82924,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82922\/revisions\/82924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}