{"id":183695,"date":"2024-11-01T01:12:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lg-polls-nrm-sues-ogsiec-for-imposing-n250000-fee-on-candidates\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T01:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:12:36","slug":"nigeria-lg-polls-nrm-sues-ogsiec-for-imposing-n250000-fee-on-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lg-polls-nrm-sues-ogsiec-for-imposing-n250000-fee-on-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: LG Polls &#8211; NRM Sues Ogsiec for Imposing N250,000 Fee On Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">An Ogun State High Court, sitting in Abeokuta, yesterday, fixed November 8, 2024, to hear a suit challenging the Ogun State Electoral Commission, OGSIEC, on the imposition of payment of administrative fee on candidates for local government election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Recall that OGSIEC announced a N250,000 charge for each chairmanship candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Councillorship candidates were charged N150,000, while female councillorship candidates were to pay N100,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The National Rescue Movement, NRM, however, approached the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410310299.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ogun State High Court, sitting in Abeokuta, yesterday, fixed November 8, 2024, to hear a suit challenging the Ogun State Electoral Commission, OGSIEC, on the imposition of payment of administrative fee on candidates for local government election. Recall that OGSIEC announced a N250,000 charge for each chairmanship candidate. Councillorship candidates were charged N150,000, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9085,9136,45976,28591,257,4687,393,19198,49869,8059,254,11600],"class_list":["post-183695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-candidates","tag-fee","tag-imposing","tag-n250000","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nrm","tag-ogsiec","tag-polls","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sues"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}