{"id":133218,"date":"2019-07-05T20:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133218"},"modified":"2019-07-05T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T19:25:23","slug":"breaking-apc-okays-indirect-primaries-to-elect-governorship-candidate-in-kogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133218","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: APC okays indirect primaries to elect governorship candidate in Kogi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/BREAKING-APC-approves-indirect-primaries-to-elect-Kogi-governorship-candidate.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved Indirect Primaries to elect the Party\u2019s candidate for the forthcoming Kogi Governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>The approval was given after a meeting of the NWC on Friday where a formal request from the Kogi State executive and stakeholders in preference for the Indirect Primary was considered and deliberated on.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Lanre Issa-Onilu recalled that \u201cthe APC Constitution which was reemphasized by a decision of National Executive Committee (NEC) provides for three mode of primary election to elect Party candidates \u2013 Indirect, Direct Primaries and consensus \u2013 depending on the peculiarities of the state and preferences of the stakeholders in respective elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Party\u2019s timetable for the sale of forms and conduct of primaries will be announced in due course.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved Indirect Primaries to elect the Party\u2019s candidate for the forthcoming Kogi Governorship election. The approval was given after a meeting of the NWC on Friday where a formal request from the Kogi State executive and stakeholders in preference for the Indirect Primary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[29,41,499,506],"class_list":["post-133218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-buhari","tag-kogi","tag-yahaya-bello"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}