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Unlike the local council elections in the nation’s 36 states, which are conducted by state independent electoral commissions (SIECs), the FCT council polls are organised directly by INEC.<\/p>\n
As residents of Nigeria’s capital head to the polls on Saturday to elect leaders for the six area councils for the next four years, many may not fully understand what is at stake or the implications of their ballots for governance in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n
While presidential and National Assembly…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Unlike the local council elections in the nation’s 36 states, which are conducted by state independent electoral commissions (SIECs), the FCT council polls are organised directly by INEC. As residents of Nigeria’s capital head to the polls on Saturday to elect leaders for the six area councils for the next four years, many may not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224547,"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":[23435,258,256,10922,10536,32885,257,4687,393,254,6484],"class_list":["post-224546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abujas","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-area","tag-councils","tag-lgas","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-states"],"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\/224546","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=224546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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