{"id":12972,"date":"2023-03-30T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12972"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:22:51","slug":"apc-warns-against-post-election-violence-says-lagos-wont-condone-a-repeat-of-endsars-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12972","title":{"rendered":"APC Warns Against Post Election Violence, Says Lagos Won\u2019t Condone A Repeat Of EndSARS Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The ruling All Progressives Congress in Lagos State has sent a strong warning to those planning to fornent trouble in the state in the aftermath of recently concluded elections to have a change of hearts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Spokesman of the party, Mr Seye Oladejo who gave this warning at a news briefing in Ikeja said the state will not allow a repeat of the sad memory of ENDSARS in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said if there were records of violence in some parts of the state does not amount to the calls for the cancellation of the outcome of the exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He advised that rather than those who lost out in the election calling for violence, the best place to show their grievances is the Election Petition Tribunal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Oladejo noted that BVAS recorded 88% sucess in polling units across the country in the last general elections. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On his part, the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso said Governor Sanwoolu will not shy away in keeping the people togather irrespective of their tribes and religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said people with divisive motives must not be allowed to destroy the heritage of the state like was the case during the ENDSARS protest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Omotoso said that it was irresponsible on the part of anyone to whip up sentiments because they lost out in the last election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the collection of Certificate of Return received by the Governor today, the Commissioner described it as the beginning of another phase to a greater Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling All Progressives Congress in Lagos State has sent a strong warning to those planning to fornent trouble in the state in the aftermath of recently concluded elections to have a change of hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[111,6748,6747],"class_list":["post-12972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-apc","tag-endsars-saga","tag-post-election-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12973,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions\/12973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}