{"id":62387,"date":"2018-11-17T23:56:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62387"},"modified":"2018-11-17T23:57:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T22:57:15","slug":"council-chairman-speaks-on-violence-in-bauchi-bye-election-attributes-voter-apathy-to-farming-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62387","title":{"rendered":"Council chairman speaks on violence in Bauchi bye-election, attributes voter apathy to farming activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The council chairman of Toro LGA of Bauchi State, Danlami Garba Mohammad has said there was no report of violence or arrests in the course of Saturday\u2019s bye- election in the area.<\/p>\n

He however pointed out that farming activities were responsible for the low turn out of voters during the exercise.<\/p>\n

Mohammad disclosed this to DAILY POST, in an interview in Toro on Saturday, stressing that the government had provided adequate security to ensure free and fair election.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far since the election commenced from morning, there has been no report of violence or arrest of any person because all is peaceful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He stressed that INEC will conduct free and fair election in 2019 from the looks of things, since no report of connivance was raised by the opposition.<\/p>\n

The council chairman assured that APC will concede defeat if the people voted against it.<\/p>\n

According to Mohammad, the election did not experience any rigging but was free and fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect that APC will win the bye-election at the end as a demonstration that the party will win in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

DAILY POST however gathered that there were reports of ballot box snatching in Jamaa, Magana Gumau among other places, but could not verify those responsible.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The council chairman of Toro LGA of Bauchi State, Danlami Garba Mohammad has said there was no report of violence or arrests in the course of Saturday\u2019s bye- election in the area. He however pointed out that farming activities were responsible for the low turn out of voters during the exercise. Mohammad disclosed this to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8354,"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":[4149,292,48],"class_list":["post-62387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2019-election","tag-bauchi","tag-inec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62387","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=62387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}