{"id":1647,"date":"2024-10-12T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T12:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2024-10-12T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T12:22:22","slug":"video-lawmakers-blast-governors-over-conduct-of-lg-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/video-lawmakers-blast-governors-over-conduct-of-lg-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) Lawmakers Blast Governors Over Conduct Of LG Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kindly Watch, Like, Share &amp; Subscribe to our Youtube Channel &#x2764;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lawmakers Blast Governors Over LG Elections\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ciz8lhit9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Senate has condemned the worrying development across the 36 states where the political party in power always wins 100 per cent or 99% of seats each time a local government council election is conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The upper legislative body admitted that democracy is at best non-existent at the local government level in the country, calling for urgent actions to rescue the third tier of government.<\/p>\n<p>The resolutions came after a motion by Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro, representing Benue South, and co-sponsored by other Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Moro highlighted that voters in Benue State and elsewhere waited for hours on election day without seeing election materials or officials at many polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>Other Senators observed that all the political parties and states were guilty of the same offense.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio called for measures, including a national dialogue, to discuss solutions to what they described as sham elections at the third tier of government.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the Senate agreed to initiate an open national dialogue with stakeholders, particularly State governors, and to meet with President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TRK-UP-Sen. Abba Moro-Benue North, PDP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindly Watch, Like, Share &amp; Subscribe to our Youtube Channel &#x2764;&#xfe0f; &nbsp; The Nigerian Senate has condemned the worrying development across the 36 states where the political party in power always wins 100 per cent or 99% of seats each time a local government council election is conducted. The upper legislative body admitted that democracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}