{"id":82928,"date":"2026-02-22T05:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82928"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:48:48","slug":"fct-polls-inec-chairman-describes-election-as-peaceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/22\/fct-polls-inec-chairman-describes-election-as-peaceful\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Polls: INEC Chairman Describes Election as Peaceful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, has described the ongoing Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council election as peaceful and well-organised.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting polling units across Abuja, Amupitan told journalists that the Biometric Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) functioned efficiently, accrediting voters within seconds. He commended security personnel for maintaining order.<\/p>\n<p>He said reports from most polling units were positive, noting that an issue in Abaji was promptly resolved with security intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Amupitan assured that BVAS would continue to safeguard the integrity of elections, adding that the FCT poll was progressing smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, has described the ongoing Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council election as peaceful and well-organised. After visiting polling units across Abuja, Amupitan told journalists that the Biometric Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) functioned efficiently, accrediting voters within seconds. He commended security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82928","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\/82928","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=82928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82930,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82928\/revisions\/82930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}