{"id":171041,"date":"2019-11-27T15:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=171041"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:42:48","slug":"drama-as-inec-denies-dino-melaye-journalists-access-into-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=171041","title":{"rendered":"Drama as INEC denies Dino Melaye, journalists, access into premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/11\/Drama-as-INEC-denies-Dino-Melaye-journalists-access-into-premises.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">There was mild drama on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as sacked Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye was denied access into the premises of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Melaye in the company of some journalists was refused entry into the commission\u2019s premises<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the senator had gone to INEC to submit more petitions.<\/p>\n<p>A camera belonging to one of the Journalists was said to have been seized but later released when Melaye intervened.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that Melaye, who is the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the Kogi West Senatorial rerun election, had last week stormed INEC\u2019s headquarters where he had presented 21 video and documentary evidence.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was mild drama on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as sacked Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye was denied access into the premises of the Commission. Melaye in the company of some journalists was refused entry into the commission\u2019s premises It is alleged that the senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171042,"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],"tags":[2658,495,48],"class_list":["post-171041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-dino-melaye","tag-inec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171041","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=171041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}