{"id":103247,"date":"2015-03-28T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T08:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=103247"},"modified":"2015-03-28T08:56:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T08:56:01","slug":"nigeria-polls-open-election-materials-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=103247","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria polls open: Election materials delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The general elections in Nigeria have began\u00a0but election materials arrived late at many polling stations visited, \u00a0including in Abuja, according to the Vanguard newspaper.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103250\" style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Jonathan-vs-Buhari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-103250\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Jonathan-vs-Buhari.jpg\" alt=\"Goodluck Jonathan (left) and Muhammadu Buhari\" width=\"631\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Jonathan-vs-Buhari.jpg 800w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Jonathan-vs-Buhari-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goodluck Jonathan (left) and Muhammadu Buhari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As at 8:40 am Nigeria time, a large turnout of voters waited patiently as election officials were yet to arrive with the materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nigeria-elections.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-103249 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nigeria-elections.jpg\" alt=\"nigeria elections\" width=\"460\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nigeria-elections.jpg 460w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nigeria-elections-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A similar scene was noticed at area 1 when the Vanguard correspondent visited the station there.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;jvhX7LQ310uNecgkiPufuxlAJrjaw6nc&#8221;]The incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan is being given a run for his money by former army chief General Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen candidates\u00a0are contesting the elections but one of the two is most likely to win according to analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) has dominated politics in Nigeria since 1999 the main opposition, the All Progressive Congress (APC)\u00a0 is giving them a race for their money in what is widely regarded as the closest presidential race since the end of military rule in the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general elections in Nigeria have began\u00a0but election materials arrived late at many polling stations visited, \u00a0including in Abuja, according to the Vanguard newspaper. As at 8:40 am Nigeria time, a large turnout of voters waited patiently as election officials were yet to arrive with the materials. A similar scene was noticed at area 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":103248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-103247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}