{"id":445,"date":"2023-02-28T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=445"},"modified":"2023-02-28T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T17:06:01","slug":"nigerians-wait-anxiously-for-final-results-as-tinubu-leadsas-opposition-parties-call-for-election-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2023\/02\/28\/nigerians-wait-anxiously-for-final-results-as-tinubu-leadsas-opposition-parties-call-for-election-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians wait anxiously for final results as Tinubu leads<br>\u2026As opposition parties call for election cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three opposition parties, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party and African Democratic Congress (ADC) have called for cancellation of the presidential  election, as the ruling party&#8217;s candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is in the lead, with results from 19 of 36 states announced.<br \/>\nResults announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from 19 of  country\u2019s 36 states showed  the ruling party\u2019s presidential candidate in the lead, ahead of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of PDP,  Mr. Peter Obi of LP.<\/p>\n<p>The LP, PDP and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) at a joint  press conference in Abuja today called for the cancellation of the result.<br \/>\nThe LP chairman, Julius Abure, alleged widespread manipulation, adding that INEC compromised the integrity of the election even before collation began.<br \/>\nThe parties also called for INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu&#8217;s removal and replacement  by a credible person.<br \/>\nHowever, APC has dismissed the opposition\u2019s allegations and enjoined the electoral body to announce the result quickly to defuse tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three opposition parties, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party and African Democratic Congress (ADC) have called for cancellation of the presidential election, as the ruling party&#8217;s candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is in the lead, with results from 19 of 36 states announced. Results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}