{"id":82983,"date":"2026-02-24T06:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82983"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:10:49","slug":"pdps-loveth-izekor-rejects-amac-councillorship-result-alleges-rigging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/24\/pdps-loveth-izekor-rejects-amac-councillorship-result-alleges-rigging\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP\u2019s Loveth Izekor Rejects AMAC Councillorship Result, Alleges Rigging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hon. Loveth Izekor, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the City Centre Ward in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), has officially rejected the outcome of Saturday\u2019s election, citing widespread irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, Izekor alleged that while her party performed convincingly at the polling units, the final figures were manipulated during the collation process to favor the APC candidate.<\/p>\n<p>She described the exercise as a direct assault on democracy and called for urgent electoral reforms, including real-time results transmission, to protect the integrity of future ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the declared outcome, Izekor expressed deep gratitude to her supporters for defying voter apathy to stand by her candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>She announced that her legal team is already preparing to challenge the results at the election tribunal, vowing to pursue the matter to its logical conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing her determination to reclaim what she termed a mandate freely given by the people, she maintained that the fight for the City Centre Ward is far from over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Hon. Loveth Izekor, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the City Centre Ward in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), has officially rejected the outcome of Saturday\u2019s election, citing widespread irregularities. Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, Izekor alleged that while her party performed convincingly at the polling units, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82983","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\/82983","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=82983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82985,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82983\/revisions\/82985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}