{"id":193774,"date":"2020-02-14T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193774"},"modified":"2020-02-14T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:09:30","slug":"breaking-apc-officially-rejects-inecs-declaration-of-diri-as-bayelsa-governor-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193774","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: APC officially rejects INEC&#8217;s declaration of Diri as Bayelsa Governor-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The national body of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has kicked against the declaration of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP\u2019s Douye Diri as the governor-elect of Bayelsa State by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.<\/p>\n<p>The party rejected INEC\u2019s decision, saying that the party will seek legal redress and go to the court to reclaim its mandate.<\/p>\n<p>This was said by the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, in an ongoing press conference in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Oshiomhole said INEC \u201cillegally declared Diri as Governor-elect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Edo State Governor accused the electoral umpire of appropriating judicial powers to itself over the Supreme Court ruling.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national body of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has kicked against the declaration of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP\u2019s Douye Diri as the governor-elect of Bayelsa State by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The party rejected INEC\u2019s decision, saying that the party will seek legal redress and go to the court to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193775,"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":[2658,29,1154,48],"class_list":["post-193774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-apc","tag-bayelsa","tag-inec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193774","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=193774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}