{"id":28287,"date":"2025-08-31T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/?p=28287"},"modified":"2025-08-31T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:13:33","slug":"apc-sweeps-20-lgas-pdp-3-in-rivers-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/apc-sweeps-20-lgas-pdp-3-in-rivers-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Sweeps 20 LGAs, PDP 3 in Rivers Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/strong> has secured victory in <strong>20 out of 23 local government areas<\/strong> during Saturday\u2019s <strong>Chairmanship and Councillorship elections<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state\u2019s <strong>ruling party<\/strong>, the <strong>Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)<\/strong>, managed to win only <strong>three LGAs<\/strong> in the election conducted by the <strong>Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a surprising outcome, <strong>Governor Siminalayi Fubara<\/strong> also lost his <strong>Opobo-Nkoro Local Government Area<\/strong> to the state\u2019s main opposition party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>RSIEC Chairman<\/strong>, <strong>Dr. Michael Odey<\/strong>, announced the results at the commission\u2019s headquarters along <strong>Aba Road<\/strong> in <strong>Port Harcourt<\/strong> on <strong>Sunday afternoon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Details later\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has secured victory in 20 out of 23 local government areas during Saturday\u2019s Chairmanship and Councillorship elections. The state\u2019s ruling &#8230; <a title=\"APC Sweeps 20 LGAs, PDP 3 in Rivers Polls\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/apc-sweeps-20-lgas-pdp-3-in-rivers-polls\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about APC Sweeps 20 LGAs, PDP 3 in Rivers Polls\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[501,2197],"tags":[493,492,1783],"class_list":["post-28287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-pdp","tag-rivers-state","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}