{"id":70385,"date":"2023-03-27T15:11:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=70385"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:11:20","slug":"inec-holds-supplementary-elections-on-april-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/inec-holds-supplementary-elections-on-april-15\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Holds Supplementary Elections On April 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barring any last minute change, the Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed April 15 for the conduct of all outstanding governorship, National and State Assembly supplementary elections.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known by the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Oyekanmi said, \u201cArising from its meeting held today, the Independent National Electoral Commission has decided that all outstanding governorship, National and State Assembly supplementary elections will take place on Saturday 15th April 2023.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u201cA detailed official statement will follow shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barring any last minute change, the Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed April 15 for the conduct of all outstanding governorship, National and State Assembly supplementary elections.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,624],"tags":[233],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-70385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-politics","tag-inec"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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