{"id":7128,"date":"2016-01-07T22:09:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2016-01-07T22:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T22:09:39","slug":"inec-to-conduct-78-re-run-elections-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7128","title":{"rendered":"INEC to conduct 78 re-run elections in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission will conduct 78 re-run elections in 2016, the commission said on Thursday in Abuja, in its daily bulletin.<br \/>\nNews Agency of Nigeria reports that the re-run elections will hold across the country, based on verdicts issued by the Court of Appeal.<br \/>\n\u201cMost of the court verdicts were given in December 2015, while a few others were ordered in November 2015, and are expected to hold within 90 days or 60 days as ordered by the appellate court.<br \/>\n\u201cA breakdown of the elections indicates that the commission will conduct 10 senatorial elections, 12 state constituency elections and 37 state assembly elections.<br \/>\n\u201cOthers are 17 federal constituency elections and 2 governorship re-run elections, subject to the verdict of the Supreme Court,\u201d the bulletin said.<br \/>\nThe details of the elections show that 38 elections, including that of governorship would be conducted in Rivers State.<br \/>\nIt also shows that eight elections, all on state constituency, would be conducted in Abia State.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7129\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/INEC.jpg\" alt=\"INEC\" width=\"172\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission will conduct 78 re-run elections in 2016, the commission said on Thursday in Abuja, in its daily bulletin. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the re-run elections will hold across the country, based on verdicts issued by the Court of Appeal. \u201cMost of the court verdicts were given in December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-inec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/INEC.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1QY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}