{"id":6695,"date":"2024-08-22T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:01:55","slug":"video-we-will-not-participate-in-rivers-lg-elections-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/video-we-will-not-participate-in-rivers-lg-elections-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) We Will Not Participate in Rivers LG Elections- APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"We Will Not Participate in Rivers LG Elections- APC\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mq8ae5aHxyM?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>Don&#8217;t Forget to Watch, Like, Share &#038; Subscribe  &#x2764;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4af;&#x1f44d;&#x1f443;<\/p>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress, APC- led Caretaker Committee Chairman,Tony Okocha, has announced that the party will not participate in the October 5, 2024 Local Government elections in Rivers state.<br \/>\nDisclosing the development during an enlarged APC stakeholders\u2019 meeting in Port Harcourt, the state capital, Okocha said the processes of conducting the elections did not follow the law.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by leading members of the party in the state, including its former Chairman, Ojukaye Amachree and Senator Wilson Ake, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>Okocha insisted that the party was excluded from the stakeholders\u2019 meeting involving political parties where the decision to conduct the election was made.<br \/>\nHe said the party had gone to court to stop all the processes of conducting the LG election<br \/>\nWhile insisting that the party in the state would no longer allow itself to be dragged into the opposition, Okocha accused the Emeka Beke-led faction of the party of working in synergy with the state government to oust the committee.<br \/>\nOkocha said the party had already filed an appeal before the Court of Appeal on the recent judgment of a Rivers State High Court that sacked the caretaker committee and reinstated the Beke-led elected executives of the APC.<br \/>\nSome Party stakeholders also urged other factional members to close ranks and join the approved exco by NWC to move the party in the state forward.<br \/>\nThe Caretaker Committee chairman also disclosed that recently his position was renewed by the National Working Committee (NWC), adding that his tenure will expire on December 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Tony Okocha \u2013 Caretaker Committee Chairman, APC Rivers State<br \/>\nSource: Swifteradio.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Forget to Watch, Like, Share &#038; Subscribe &#x2764;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4af;&#x1f44d;&#x1f443; The All Progressives Congress, APC- led Caretaker&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":6697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}