{"id":649,"date":"2018-04-25T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2018-04-25T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:29:09","slug":"inec-begins-dino-melayes-recall-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"INEC begins Dino Melaye\u2019s recall process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission has commenced the recall process of the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye.<\/p>\n<p>INEC on Wednesday announced the commencement of verification exercise of voters in his constituency.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the Appeal Court ruling which gave INEC the go-ahead to carry out the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise, scheduled for Saturday, April 28th, is in line with the constitutional provision that 50+1 registered voter must be confirmed to have signed the recall petition register.<\/p>\n<p>The Kogi State resident electoral commissioner, Prof. James Apam, in a press conference on Wednesday in Lokoja said that the Commission had put all necessary modalities in place to ensure a hitch-free exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe verification exercise, which is the first in the line of activities to be carried out in a recall process, will be done on 28th April, 2018 in 560 polling units in the Kogi West Senatorial District,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Apam said that the result of the exercise would be announced on Sunday when collation is expected to have been concluded.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cThe result of the verification exercise would determine whether or not to proceeded to the next stage, which is referendum.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission has commenced the recall process of the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye. INEC on Wednesday announced the commencement of verification exercise of voters in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}