{"id":18288,"date":"2019-11-30T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=18288"},"modified":"2019-11-30T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T18:22:00","slug":"why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec","title":{"rendered":"Why Kogi West rerun election recorded voters\u2019 apathy \u2013 INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kogi_State\">Kogi State<\/a> Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor James Apam, has blamed the low turnout of voters in the Saturday\u2019s Kogi West senatorial district rerun on poor mobilisation by political parties.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking against the backdrop of voters\u2019 apathy observed in most polling units .<\/p>\n<p>Apam said that instead of the political parties to embark on membership drive aimed at convincing their supporters on the need to come out and vote for them, they turned around to blame the Independent National Electoral Commission for poor turnout of voters.<\/p>\n<p>Some voters told our correspondent, that the low turnout could be blamed on the fear of a repeat of the violence that greeted the November 16 election.<\/p>\n<p>Bala Bariga, a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, who spoke with DAILY POST at Ward C Polling Unit 001 attributed the low turnout to citizens\u2019 mindsets that their votes don\u2019t count.<\/p>\n<p>He also said more voters stayed away for fear of being caught in any violent crossfire.<\/p>\n<p>However, as of the time of filing this report, there has not been any reported case of violence as the few voters on the queue were seen casting their votes without any hindrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kogi State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor James Apam, has blamed the low turnout of voters in the Saturday\u2019s Kogi West senatorial district rerun on poor mobilisation by political parties. 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Apam said that instead of the political parties to embark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[251,876],"class_list":["post-18288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-inec","tag-kogi-state"],"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>Why Kogi West rerun election recorded voters\u2019 apathy \u2013 INEC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Kogi State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor James Apam, has blamed the low turnout of voters in the Saturday\u2019s Kogi West senatorial\" \/>\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\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Kogi West rerun election recorded voters\u2019 apathy \u2013 INEC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kogi State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor James Apam, has blamed the low turnout of voters in the Saturday\u2019s Kogi West senatorial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-30T18:22:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/INEC-election.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"797\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Why Kogi West rerun election recorded voters\u2019 apathy \u2013 INEC\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-30T18:22:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec\"},\"wordCount\":202,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/INEC-election.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"INEC\",\"Kogi State\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-kogi-west-rerun-election-recorded-voters-apathy-inec\",\"name\":\"Why Kogi West rerun election recorded voters\u2019 apathy \u2013 INEC - 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