{"id":22062,"date":"2020-03-01T18:28:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=22062"},"modified":"2020-03-01T18:28:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:28:38","slug":"giant-of-africa-cannot-conduct-free-and-fair-elections-gov-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/giant-of-africa-cannot-conduct-free-and-fair-elections-gov-wike","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Giant of Africa cannot conduct free and fair elections\u2019 \u2013 Gov. 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He spoke on Friday at the Government House Port Harcourt during a solidarity visit by the leaders and people of Okrika and Ogu\/Bolo Local Government Areas. He said, \u201cIt is unfortunate that up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1001,1152],"class_list":["post-22062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-federal-government","tag-governor-wike"],"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>\u2018Giant of Africa cannot conduct free and fair elections\u2019 \u2013 Gov. 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