{"id":44284,"date":"2021-06-01T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=44284"},"modified":"2021-06-01T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:20:32","slug":"lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc","title":{"rendered":"Lagos primaries: Disregard results circulating on social media\u2014 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, on Tuesday, distanced itself from Saturday\u2019s outcome of its primary election currently circulating on some social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The APC described the results as fake and urged the general public, especially party members, to disregard them.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some unverified results of the APC primary election are circulating in some sections of social media.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, the APC Spokesman, Seye Oladejo, told NAN who sought authenticity of the results presently circulating on the social media, that the results were fictitious and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>Outcome of Southwest congress will determine future of PDP \u2013 Gov Makinde<\/p>\n<p>Oladejo said, \u201cThe publication of fake and unverified results can heat up the polity unnecessarily. It is unprofessional and unethical. Patience remains a virtue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease, disregard these results. They are not authentic,\u201d he said. NAN reports that the ruling party on Saturday conducted an open secret ballot primary across wards in the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).<\/p>\n<p>The election was aimed at selecting its chairmanship and councillorship flag-bearers, ahead of the July 24 council poll.<\/p>\n<p>The primary election was, however, not without some hitches, as there were reported cases of disruption, violence and ballot box snatches in some wards.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the primaries are still being expected to be announced at the APC state secretariat, 48 hours after the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>$1BN arms deal allegation: Group advocates immediate probe of Nigerian army, others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, on Tuesday, distanced itself from Saturday\u2019s outcome of its primary election currently circulating on some social media platforms. The APC described the results as fake and urged the general public, especially party members, to disregard them. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,34,4404,254],"class_list":["post-44284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-lagos-primaries","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>Lagos primaries: Disregard results circulating on social media\u2014 APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, on Tuesday, distanced itself from Saturday\u2019s outcome of its p ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lagos primaries: Disregard results circulating on social media\u2014 APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, on Tuesday, distanced itself from Saturday\u2019s outcome of its p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-01T15:30:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b65011589c7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1798\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1620\" \/>\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\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Lagos primaries: Disregard results circulating on social media\u2014 APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-01T15:30:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc\"},\"wordCount\":257,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b65011589c7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"lagos primaries\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/lagos-primaries-disregard-results-circulating-on-social-media-apc\",\"name\":\"Lagos primaries: Disregard results circulating on social media\u2014 APC - 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