{"id":147568,"date":"2019-08-29T13:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=147568"},"modified":"2019-08-29T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:12:47","slug":"apc-postpones-bayelsa-governorship-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=147568","title":{"rendered":"APC postpones Bayelsa governorship primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted the date for the Bayelsa governorship primary from Thursday, August 29 to Saturday, August 31, 2019.<\/p>\n

This was contained in a terse statement on Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party has also adopted the Direct mode of primary in line with the written request of the Bayelsa State chapter and majority of the stakeholders\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is in compliance with the decision of the APC National Executive Committee (NEC), which grants state chapters and majority of party leaders in a state the right to decide on the mode of primary they wish to adopt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the APC has upheld the reports of the screening and appeal committees for the Bayelsa Governorship aspirants.<\/p>\n

Of the total of seven governorship aspirants that were screened, six were cleared to participate in the governorship primary in Bayelsa state.<\/p>\n

They are: Mr. Aganaba Preye Steven, Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, Prince Ebitimi Christopher Amgbare, Ms. Diseye Nsirim Poweigha, Mr. Lyon David Pereworimini, and Engr. Prof (Mrs.) Ongoebi Maureen Etebu.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dr. Briyai Oyeins Frankland was not cleared to participate in the Party\u2019s governorship primary.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted the date for the Bayelsa governorship primary from Thursday, August 29 to Saturday, August 31, 2019. This was contained in a terse statement on Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu. \u201cThe party has also adopted the Direct mode of primary in line with the written request […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132528,"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":[3,4],"tags":[29,1154],"class_list":["post-147568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-bayelsa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147568","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=147568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}