{"id":31877,"date":"2020-11-01T19:16:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T19:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=31877"},"modified":"2020-11-01T19:16:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T19:16:45","slug":"apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom","title":{"rendered":"\u2018APC rejected opportunity to prove relevance in A\u2019Ibom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Mr. Chris Udofia has chided the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Akwa Ibom for boycotting last Saturday\u2019s local government election.<\/p>\n<p>Udofia, a former chairman of Uyo local government area, said the APC would have used the council election to muster grassroot support as well its political relevance ahead of the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke on Saturday shortly casting his ballot at Ward 12 Unit 13 in Uyo local government area.<\/p>\n<p>Udofia commended Governor Udom Emmanuel and the Akwa Ibom Independent Electoral Commission(AKISIEC) for promoting democratic participation for all political parties to contest the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dYou give democracy to people who don\u2019t understand but they throw it away. How can a whole political party as APC refused to participate in a local government elections?<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThis was supposed to be another chance for them to show relevance in the state\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former council boss alsp commended AKISIEC for the smooth conduct of council poll, adding that such performance was unprecedented in the history of the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said voting commenced simultaneously with accreditation of voters at exactly 8am as women , youths and elders queued to vote for leaders of their choices.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom\/\" data-a2a-title=\"\u2018APC rejected opportunity to prove relevance in A\u2019Ibom\u2019\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Mr. Chris Udofia has chided the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Akwa Ibom for boycotting last Saturday\u2019s local government election. Udofia, a former chairman of Uyo local government area, said the APC would have used the council election to muster grassroot support as well its political relevance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":27681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,65],"class_list":["post-31877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-pdp"],"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>\u2018APC rejected opportunity to prove relevance in A\u2019Ibom\u2019 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Mr. Chris Udofia has chided the All Progressives Congress(APC)\" \/>\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\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018APC rejected opportunity to prove relevance in A\u2019Ibom\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Mr. Chris Udofia has chided the All Progressives Congress(APC)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-01T19:16:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/APC2-5f186e40c2fb9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"653\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"343\" \/>\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\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"\u2018APC rejected opportunity to prove relevance in A\u2019Ibom\u2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-01T19:16:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/APC2-5f186e40c2fb9.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-rejected-opportunity-to-prove-relevance-in-aibom\",\"name\":\"\u2018APC rejected opportunity to prove relevance in A\u2019Ibom\u2019 - 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