{"id":63779,"date":"2018-11-23T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T08:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63779"},"modified":"2018-11-23T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T08:49:15","slug":"2019-election-dates-for-presidential-vice-presidential-debates-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63779","title":{"rendered":"2019 election: Dates for presidential, vice presidential debates announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2019-election-Dates-for-presidential-vice-presidential-debates-announced.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG) and Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) have announced dates for the 2019 presidential and vice-presidential election debates.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential debate is fixed for December 14, 2018, while vice-presidential candidates will have theirs on January 19, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on Thursday by the Chairman of BON, John Momoh, at a press conference in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>According to Momoh, the debates will be aired on all BON member radio and television stations across the country and also streamed on social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian Election Debate Group and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria are organising a presidential debate on December the 14th, 2018 and a vice presidential debate on January the 19th, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe debates would hold at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja and will be broadcast live on all BON member radio and television stations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe debates will also be streamed live on all mobile and social media platforms such as Youtube, Facebook, Twitter And Instagram, to give it a global coverage,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG) and Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) have announced dates for the 2019 presidential and vice-presidential election debates. The presidential debate is fixed for December 14, 2018, while vice-presidential candidates will have theirs on January 19, 2019. The announcement was made on Thursday by the Chairman of BON, John Momoh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63780,"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":[4644,8158],"class_list":["post-63779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2019-presidential-election","tag-presidential-debate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63779","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=63779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}