{"id":82963,"date":"2026-02-22T18:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82963"},"modified":"2026-02-22T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:17:04","slug":"fct-polls-pdp-sets-up-legal-team-to-handle-election-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/22\/fct-polls-pdp-sets-up-legal-team-to-handle-election-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Polls: PDP Sets Up Legal Team to Handle Election Petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has inaugurated a special legal team to address petitions from the February 21 FCT Area Council elections in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the party congratulated its declared winners, including Gwagwalada Chairman-elect Mohammed Kasim, describing their victories as hard-earned despite alleged irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>PDP claimed that armed security personnel intimidated voters and removed result sheets in some polling units.<\/p>\n<p>The legal team, led by National Legal Adviser Shafi Bara\u2019u, will assist candidates with genuine complaints, urging prompt action to protect their rights.<\/p>\n<p>The party also criticized the Electoral Act 2026 for contributing to low voter turnout and called on the National Assembly and the President to implement urgent reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has inaugurated a special legal team to address petitions from the February 21 FCT Area Council elections in Abuja. In a statement, the party congratulated its declared winners, including Gwagwalada Chairman-elect Mohammed Kasim, describing their victories as hard-earned despite alleged irregularities. PDP claimed that armed security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82963","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\/82963","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=82963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82966,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82963\/revisions\/82966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}