{"id":13779,"date":"2015-04-15T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=13779"},"modified":"2015-04-15T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T11:58:36","slug":"pdp-youths-threaten-mass-protest-want-ihedioha-declared-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=13779","title":{"rendered":"PDP Youths Threaten  Mass Protest, Want  Ihedioha Declared Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ihedioha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ihedioha.jpg\" alt=\"Ihedioha\" width=\"205\" height=\"246\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13773\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By onyekachi eze<br \/>\nReactions have continued to trail the April 1th gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections in Imo state which the Returning Officer, Prof Ibidapo Obe has declared  inconclusive on the grounds that the number of cancelled votes are higher than what APC and PDP scored.<br \/>\nSequel to  this,  an  aggrieved sets  of  youths who addressed  themselves as  Imo  PDP youths drawn from the 27 local government areas of  the state,  yesterday stormed  the party&#8217;s secretariat, Okigwe road  Owerri in a  protest  against  the conduct  of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)  towards their party&#8217;s candidate, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha.<br \/>\nSome  of the inscriptions on the placards reads; we don&#8217;t  need a murderer as our Governor again\u201d, we  need a true son  of  Imo state\u201d It is Ihedioha or no one else to govern us\u201d, Imo state will experience better change if given Ihedioha  his rightful victory among others.<br \/>\nThe roads leading to Okigwe road, Owerri was blocked while some keke riders plying across the road were beaten up by the angry youths. Okorocha&#8217;s Campaign posters were thorn into pieces, while they beat  their chests that Ihedioha won the polls across the 27 LGAs and can&#8217;t stay to watch APC take away their mandate.<br \/>\nThey further accused governor Okorocha of master minding the alleged \u201crigging\u201d in his favour through ballot box snatching and doctoring of result sheets.<br \/>\nAddressing the protesters, the state party  chairman  of  the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Barr Nnamdi Anyahie advised  them to sheath their swords and  not  make  their  feelings  known  through violence, stressing that the secretariat has  already  petitioned to INEC on the  need for prompt intervention in the governorship seat of  Imo State. However, he optimistically assured them of a positive response in relation t the outcome of the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By onyekachi eze Reactions have continued to trail the April 1th gubernatorial and House of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13780,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779\/revisions\/13780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}