{"id":97289,"date":"2023-10-09T20:13:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T19:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls"},"modified":"2023-10-09T22:36:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T21:36:53","slug":"inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls","title":{"rendered":"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed concern over the rising cases of insecurity ahead of the November 11 governorship elections billed to take place in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, he appealed to political parties and their candidates to avoid actions and utterances capable of heating up the polity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commission is concerned about the spate of insecurity and violence, including clashes among supporters of political parties and candidates in the forthcoming elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The commission appealed to all political parties and candidates to avoid utterances and acts that may heat up the polity, adding that it will continue to closely monitor the situation and sustain its engagement with security agencies and stakeholders to ensure peaceful conduct of elections in the three states.<\/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 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed concern over the rising cases of insecurity ahead of the November 11 governorship elections billed to take place in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states. In a statement by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, he appealed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":97288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,773,1018,251,396,254],"class_list":["post-97289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-bayelsa","tag-imo","tag-inec","tag-kogi","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>INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed concern over the rising cases of insecurity ahead of ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed concern over the rising cases of insecurity ahead of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-09T19:13:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-10-09T21:36:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-09T19:13:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-09T21:36:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Bayelsa\",\"Imo\",\"INEC\",\"Kogi\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls\",\"name\":\"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-09T19:13:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-09T21:36:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed concern over the rising cases of insecurity ahead of ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls - Nigeria","description":"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed concern over the rising cases of insecurity ahead of ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls","og_description":"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed concern over the rising cases of insecurity ahead of ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2023-10-09T19:13:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-10-09T21:36:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls","datePublished":"2023-10-09T19:13:33+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-09T21:36:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls"},"wordCount":165,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Bayelsa","Imo","INEC","Kogi","Nigeria"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls","name":"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg","datePublished":"2023-10-09T19:13:33+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-09T21:36:53+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed concern over the rising cases of insecurity ahead of ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696871027.407518.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-expresses-concern-over-insecurity-ahead-of-kogi-imo-bayelsa-polls#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"INEC expresses concern over insecurity ahead of Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa polls"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}