{"id":205174,"date":"2025-08-21T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-speak-on-officers-caught-on-video-aiding-vote-buying\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:17:46","slug":"nigeria-police-speak-on-officers-caught-on-video-aiding-vote-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-speak-on-officers-caught-on-video-aiding-vote-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Police Speak On Officers Caught On Video Aiding Vote Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The police say incident unrelated to the 16 August bye-elections in Kano State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The police have vowed to sanction officers seen in a viral video aiding vote buying in an election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The video seen by PREMIUM TIMES captured the Gwale Local Government chairperson, Abubakar Mojo, giving money to voters on a queue while police officers assisted in managing the queue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The police spokesperson in Kano, Haruna Kiyawa, in a statement on Tuesday, said the command had identified the officers involved and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210638.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>The police say incident unrelated to the 16 August bye-elections in Kano State. The police have vowed to sanction officers seen in a viral video aiding vote buying in an election. The video seen by PREMIUM TIMES captured the Gwale Local Government chairperson, Abubakar Mojo, giving money to voters on a queue while police officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,28214,16564,6646,257,4687,393,6749,662,254,8676,8066,8588],"class_list":["post-205174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aiding","tag-buying","tag-caught","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speak","tag-video","tag-vote"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/205174","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=205174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}