{"id":45628,"date":"2018-09-23T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T07:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=45628"},"modified":"2018-09-23T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T07:40:29","slug":"osun-decides-what-election-will-prove-to-nigerians-saraki-warns-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=45628","title":{"rendered":"Osun Decides: What election will prove to Nigerians &#8211; Saraki warns INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Osun-Decides-What-election-will-prove-to-Nigerians-Saraki-warns-INEC.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Senate President Bukola Saraki, has said that Osun State election was a test to Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and other security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki made the statement on his Twitter page while urging INEC to monitor collation of results as the election is a test of democracy in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate President also applauded Nigerians vigilantly following collation of election results and defending the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki wrote: \u201cAs we await the result from Osun State, let us remember that collation is just a simple addition of results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis election is a test of our democracy. INEC and security agencies are under test. All well meaning Nigerians are awake monitoring the results closely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust spoke to some of our volunteers on ground in Osun State. I\u2019m delighted to hear that even at 2:50am, Nigerians are vigilant and defending PDP\u2019s comfortable lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Bukola Saraki, has said that Osun State election was a test to Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and other security agencies. Saraki made the statement on his Twitter page while urging INEC to monitor collation of results as the election is a test of democracy in Nigeria. The Senate President also applauded Nigerians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45629,"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":[],"class_list":["post-45628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628","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=45628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}