{"id":83086,"date":"2026-02-27T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83086"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:03:26","slug":"inec-fixes-january-16-2027-for-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/27\/inec-fixes-january-16-2027-for-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Fixes January 16, 2027 for Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission has scheduled January 16, 2027, for the Presidential and National Assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, announced the revised timetable in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He added that governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections will hold on February 6, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Independent National Electoral Commission has scheduled January 16, 2027, for the Presidential and National Assembly elections. National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, announced the revised timetable in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. He added that governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83086","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\/83086","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=83086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83088,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83086\/revisions\/83088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}