{"id":225677,"date":"2026-03-01T12:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-electoral-act-apc-calls-oppositions-amendment-agitation-hollow\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:50:23","slug":"nigeria-electoral-act-apc-calls-oppositions-amendment-agitation-hollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-electoral-act-apc-calls-oppositions-amendment-agitation-hollow\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Electoral Act &#8211; APC Calls Opposition&#8217;s Amendment Agitation &#8216;Hollow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">LAGOS \u2014 The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticized opposition calls for a fresh amendment of the Electoral Act 2022, describing the agitation as &#8220;hollow&#8221; and unconstructive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Spokesman Seye Oladejo said in a statement that the opposition&#8217;s push for amendment lacks seriousness and does not contribute to the development of Nigeria&#8217;s democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;What Nigerians are witnessing is not principled advocacy for reform, but a display of ineptitude by opposition&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270386.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>LAGOS \u2014 The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticized opposition calls for a fresh amendment of the Electoral Act 2022, describing the agitation as &#8220;hollow&#8221; and unconstructive. Spokesman Seye Oladejo said in a statement that the opposition&#8217;s push for amendment lacks seriousness and does not contribute to the development of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225678,"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":[6991,258,256,10892,11010,11297,6137,7239,36553,257,4687,393,13899,254],"class_list":["post-225677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agitation","tag-amendment","tag-apc","tag-calls","tag-electoral","tag-hollow","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-oppositions","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/225677","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=225677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}