{"id":14201,"date":"2015-05-27T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T11:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14201"},"modified":"2015-05-27T11:33:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T11:33:32","slug":"okorocha-to-conduct-lga-election-after-swearing-in-prays-for-credible-chairmen-to-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14201","title":{"rendered":"Okorocha To Conduct LGA Election After Swearing-In, Prays For Credible Chairmen To Emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14203\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/okokrooo.jpg\" alt=\"okokrooo]\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/okokrooo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/okokrooo-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Okey Alozie<br \/>\nThere are strong indications that  the  long awaited Local Government election in Imo State may  hold  nay  time from July<br \/>\nGovernor Rochas Okorocha on returning from his oversea trip last Thursday confirmed that LGA election will hold in no distant time. When contacted, the ISIEC boss Rt Hon Bar. Amechi Nwoha  told  Trumpeta  reporter  in  his office last  week  that the commission  is  ready  for  the election.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the commission will soon invite political parties for briefing and sensitization.  He assured Imolites that the election will be free and fair, adding that there will be no room for compromise by his agency.<br \/>\nBefore now, the election has suffered  a lot  of setbacks  following the  inability of Governor  Okorocha  to conduct  the  elections  four  years after assuming office as  the Governor.<br \/>\nAlthough the matter is still in court, the  council polls  in  the past have generated a lot  of ripples  in the  state.  Report shows that each time  the council polls are mentioned in Imo, opposition groups  raise eyebrows  with a  threat of  boycott.<br \/>\nThe move to conduct the council poll since 2011has remained  a  mirage  as  the PDP  and  other opposition  parties  see it as a deceit .  They  however accuse  the  rescue mission team  led by  Governor Rochas Okorocha  of  plotting  to  rig to  his party\u2019s favour. \u201cIt is  a  trick to consolidate  power, Okorocha has secretly positioned his  men  to succeed themselves as executive chairmen of the LGAs\u201d. One  of  the PDP  chieftains declared.<br \/>\nThose who spoke in  favour of the rescue mission government  insisted  that  the  election to produce the council chairmen and councilors are supposed to take  place with  or without PDP, adding that the LGA  election is  a rescheduled one. \u201cIt is not mandatory  that  every  party should  participate  in the  election\u201d Imo concerned  citizens advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Okey Alozie There are strong indications that the long awaited Local Government election in<\/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-14201","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\/14201","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=14201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14204,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201\/revisions\/14204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}