{"id":82959,"date":"2026-02-22T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82959"},"modified":"2026-02-22T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:13:08","slug":"pdps-kasim-mohammed-wins-gwagwalada-chairmanship-in-close-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/22\/pdps-kasim-mohammed-wins-gwagwalada-chairmanship-in-close-race\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP\u2019s Kasim Mohammed Wins Gwagwalada Chairmanship in Close Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Kasim Mohammed of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the elected Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council.<\/p>\n<p>Kasim Mohammed secured the highest number of valid votes after results from all wards were collated, defeating candidates from rival parties in a closely contested election.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP performed strongly in several strategic wards, reflecting broad support for its candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The election faced challenges, including reports of voter intimidation and allegations of vote-buying, but INEC maintained that the process was fair and transparent.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement, jubilant PDP supporters celebrated in the streets of Gwagwalada town. Opposition parties are yet to issue official reactions as post-election activities continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Kasim Mohammed of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the elected Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council. Kasim Mohammed secured the highest number of valid votes after results from all wards were collated, defeating candidates from rival parties in a closely contested election. The PDP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82959","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=82959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82962,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82959\/revisions\/82962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}