{"id":57730,"date":"2022-01-19T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=57730"},"modified":"2022-01-19T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:14:41","slug":"breaking-senate-dumps-direct-mode-of-primary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/breaking-senate-dumps-direct-mode-of-primary-elections","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Senate dumps direct mode of primary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday dumped the direct mode of primary elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s stand followed an amendment by the conference committee which recommended that \u201cthe direct primary mode of election be expunged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The direct primary has been replaced with three options, including direct, indirect and consensus in clause 85 of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Details shortly\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday dumped the direct mode of primary elections. The Senate\u2019s stand followed an amendment by the conference committee which recommended that \u201cthe direct primary mode of election be expunged.\u201d The direct primary has been replaced with three options, including direct, indirect and consensus in clause 85 of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,254,53],"class_list":["post-57730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-nigeria","tag-senate"],"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>BREAKING: Senate dumps direct mode of primary elections - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday dumped the direct mode of primary elections. 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