{"id":82974,"date":"2026-02-23T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82974"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:32:12","slug":"fct-polls-group-flags-unit-reassignments-vote-buying-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/23\/fct-polls-group-flags-unit-reassignments-vote-buying-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Polls: Group Flags Unit Reassignments, Vote Buying Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa) has raised concerns over late polling unit reassignments, vote trading and operational lapses during Saturday\u2019s FCT Area Council elections.<\/p>\n<p>CDD Director, Dauda Garuba, said the group deployed observers across the 62 wards and described the exercise as largely peaceful but marred by logistical challenges that affected voter participation.<\/p>\n<p>He cited cases where voters discovered their polling units had been moved without prior notice, leaving many unable to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Movement restrictions across the FCT further compounded the problem.<\/p>\n<p>CDD also reported delays in accreditation and voting due to incomplete voter registers and incorrect deployment of BVAS machines in some polling units, issues it said may have contributed to the low turnout recorded in parts of the territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa) has raised concerns over late polling unit reassignments, vote trading and operational lapses during Saturday\u2019s FCT Area Council elections. CDD Director, Dauda Garuba, said the group deployed observers across the 62 wards and described the exercise as largely peaceful but marred by logistical challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82974","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=82974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82976,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82974\/revisions\/82976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}