{"id":134850,"date":"2024-10-19T23:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm"},"modified":"2024-10-20T00:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T23:05:50","slug":"no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm","title":{"rendered":"No council election taking place in 90% of Kogi State-CNPP raises alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP has described the Saturday Local Government election in Kogi State as a mockery of Nigeria\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The CNPP Chairman in Kogi State, Mohammed Kabir Abdullahi disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He berated the Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission for allegedly deceiving the people that they are conducting an election, noting that there was no Local Government election in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads in part, \u201cThis is the biggest mockery in the 21st century. We thought that our democracy had grown but unknowingly to us, we are 10 steps backwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKogi State Independent Electoral Commission has once again displayed their incompetence as regards the conduct of council polls. The fillers we are getting across the 21 Local Governments indicate that in more than 90 percent of the wards in Kogi State election is not taking place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d The All Progressive Congress in Kogi State has failed the people. They have denied Kogites their civic responsibilities to elect their leaders at the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government should come out plain and say they want to hand pick Local Government Chairmen and Councilors rather than hiding under the pretence of conducting an audit election. The action of the present administration in Kogi State is a rape of Nigeria\u2019s democracy and will not be accepted in its entirety\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP has described the Saturday Local Government election in Kogi State as a mockery of Nigeria\u2019s democracy. The CNPP Chairman in Kogi State, Mohammed Kabir Abdullahi disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. He berated the Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission for allegedly deceiving the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":134849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1474,876,254],"class_list":["post-134850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-cnpp","tag-kogi-state","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No council election taking place in 90% of Kogi State-CNPP raises alarm - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP has described the Saturday Local Government election in Kogi State as ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No council election taking place in 90% of Kogi State-CNPP raises alarm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP has described the Saturday Local Government election in Kogi State as ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-19T22:00:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-19T23:05:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1729366518.679232.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"781\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"698\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"No council election taking place in 90% of Kogi State-CNPP raises alarm\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-19T22:00:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-19T23:05:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1729366518.679232.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CNPP\",\"Kogi State\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-council-election-taking-place-in-90-of-kogi-state-cnpp-raises-alarm\",\"name\":\"No council election taking place in 90% of Kogi State-CNPP raises alarm - 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