{"id":3764,"date":"2020-04-27T23:24:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maadhouze.com\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2020-04-27T23:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:24:57","slug":"no-plan-to-shift-edo-ondo-guber-election-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=3764","title":{"rendered":"No Plan To Shift Edo, Ondo Guber Election- INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has described as unfounded and misleading reports that it will shift the Edo and Ondo governorship elections slated to hold later this year.<\/p>\n<p>INEC had fixed September 19 and October 10 respectively for the elections before the outbreak of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A national newpaper had reported the Commision will shift the dates of the governorship elections as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_code\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5089981496810613\" data-ad-slot=\"5364422452\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_expand\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_anchor\"><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins>But the Commission described the report as speculative and incorrect, adding it gives a totally wrong impression.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Press Secretary to the INEC National Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, said the decision to change the dates already announced for the elections is a serious matter, which only the Commission can take.<\/p>\n<p>According to him: \u201cLet me state here that the decision to change the dates already announced for the two elections is a very serious matter. Only the Commission can take that decision and it has to be officially communicated via a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, it appears that what some Editors are really looking for is for INEC to declare that it is postponing the Edo &amp; Ondo governorship elections. But they cannot and should not put words in the Commission\u2019s mouth! There is nowhere in Okoye\u2019s response where he expressly declared that the elections will be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo casting the headline:\u201d INEC to Shift Edo, Ondo Guber Polls\u201d, is speculative and incorrect. It gives a totally wrong impression. A lot of people will believe the headline without reading the story\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has described as unfounded and misleading reports that it will shift the Edo and Ondo governorship elections slated to hold later this year. INEC had fixed September 19 and October 10 respectively for the elections before the outbreak of the pandemic. A national newpaper had reported the Commision will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2503,18,113,1294],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-edo","tag-election","tag-inec","tag-ondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764"}],"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=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}