{"id":168033,"date":"2019-11-15T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168033"},"modified":"2019-11-15T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T10:09:21","slug":"kogi-bayelsa-guber-atiku-sends-message-to-inec-pdp-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168033","title":{"rendered":"Kogi\/ Bayelsa Guber: Atiku sends message to INEC, PDP supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair and credible polls in Kogi and Bayelsa states on Saturday .<\/p>\n

Atiku appealed to the people of the two states to take serious interest in the choices they make as they cast their votes in the governorship elections in both states.<\/p>\n

Atiku said this in a terse statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Paul Ibe on Friday morning<\/p>\n

The former Vice President appealed to voters to make right choices when voting, adding that PDP must emerge victorious in both states.<\/p>\n

The statement read in part: \u201cAtiku Abubakar has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair and credible polls in Kogi and Bayelsa states on Saturday .<\/p>\n

\u201cAtiku enjoined the electorate to make their choices wisely by electing capable hands to steer the affairs of the two states.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe specifically urged PDP supporters and members to \u201cuse the power of their overwhelming strength\u201d in Bayelsa and Kogi states to ensure victory, adding that it was crucial for the PDP to also win the senatorial election in Kogi West.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair and credible polls in Kogi and Bayelsa states on Saturday . Atiku appealed to the people of the two states to take serious interest in the choices they make as they cast their votes in the governorship elections […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162527,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,1154,48,499],"class_list":["post-168033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-bayelsa","tag-inec","tag-kogi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168033","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=168033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}