{"id":230784,"date":"2026-04-20T15:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-apga-bans-sharing-of-cash-items-during-primaries\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:09:44","slug":"nigeria-apga-bans-sharing-of-cash-items-during-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-apga-bans-sharing-of-cash-items-during-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: APGA Bans Sharing of Cash, Items During Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>The party also banned its officials from wearing campaign materials or accepting gifts from aspirants.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State says the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) primaries will no longer permit monetary inducement or transactional politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">He spoke on Saturday at the party&#8217;s South-east zonal stakeholders&#8217; meeting in Awka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mr Soludo linked the party&#8217;s slow growth since 2002 to a culture where officials allegedly exploited aspirants during primaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604200653.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 party also banned its officials from wearing campaign materials or accepting gifts from aspirants. Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State says the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) primaries will no longer permit monetary inducement or transactional politics. He spoke on Saturday at the party&#8217;s South-east zonal stakeholders&#8217; meeting in Awka. Mr Soludo linked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230785,"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":[258,256,5229,7339,5197,12359,257,4687,393,7025,9713,254],"class_list":["post-230784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apga","tag-bans","tag-cash","tag-items","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-primaries","tag-sharing","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\/230784","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=230784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}