{"id":231264,"date":"2026-04-24T15:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-let-competence-not-cash-decide-candidates-chiogo-ikokwu-tells-adc\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:19:50","slug":"nigeria-let-competence-not-cash-decide-candidates-chiogo-ikokwu-tells-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-let-competence-not-cash-decide-candidates-chiogo-ikokwu-tells-adc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Let Competence, Not Cash, Decide Candidates &#8211; Chiogo Ikokwu Tells Adc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Aspirant for Idemili North and South Federal Constituency for House of Representatives on African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Chiogo Constance Ikokwu, has called on political parties across Nigeria to either scrap or reduce the high cost of nomination forms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">This, she said, will open the door to real leadership and help to expand access to women and people with disabilities (PWDs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In a statement titled &#8220;End the Paywall on Leadership: Let Competence, Not Cash, Decide our Candidates,&#8221; Dr. Ikokwu&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240353.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>Aspirant for Idemili North and South Federal Constituency for House of Representatives on African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Chiogo Constance Ikokwu, has called on political parties across Nigeria to either scrap or reduce the high cost of nomination forms. This, she said, will open the door to real leadership and help to expand access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231265,"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":[22947,258,256,9085,5197,54256,17678,9566,54257,257,4687,393,254,7036],"class_list":["post-231264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-candidates","tag-cash","tag-chiogo","tag-competence","tag-decide","tag-ikokwu","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tells"],"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\/231264","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=231264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}