{"id":803,"date":"2024-09-21T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T10:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/?p=803"},"modified":"2024-09-21T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T10:27:29","slug":"efcc-arrests-three-over-alleged-vote-buying-in-edo-governorship-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Arrests Three Over Alleged Vote-Buying in Edo Governorship Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has made arrests related to suspected vote-buying during the ongoing Edo State governorship election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrests occurred around 10:00 am in Egor Local Government Area, where EFCC officials apprehended  two men and one woman; suspected of involvement in vote-buying activities. However, local residents have protested, claiming the suspects are being unfairly targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday&#8217;s election features 17 candidates, with the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Congress (APC), and Labour Party (LP) candidates being the front-runners. Asue Ighodalo represents PDP, Senator Monday Okpebholo is running for APC, and Olumide Akpata stands for LP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has made arrests related to suspected vote-buying during the ongoing Edo State governorship election. The arrests occurred around 10:00 am in Egor Local Government Area, where EFCC officials apprehended two men and one woman; suspected of involvement in vote-buying activities. However, local residents have protested, claiming the suspects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-menu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/edo-election-2_1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}