{"id":147868,"date":"2015-09-01T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T07:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=147868"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:49:06","slug":"district-level-election-to-be-held-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=147868","title":{"rendered":"District level election to be held today\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The District Level and Unit Committee elections will come off today in all electoral areas in the country except the Lower Manya Krobo district and a few others.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;EmySlywaK8MXs0lQKu7CuDeb5jgi73mr&#8221;]A total of 18,885 candidates are contesting in the District Assembly Elections and 43,585; the Unit Committee elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission has already sent electoral materials to the various polling centers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/31\/2000-security-officers-deployed-for-assembly-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">40,000 security personnel<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from the Police, Prisons, and Fire and Immigration services have been deployed to ensure order at all polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Director of Public Affairs at the EC, Christian Owusu Parry said, all necessary arrangement has been put in place for the election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District Level and Unit Committee elections will come off today in all electoral areas in the country except the Lower Manya Krobo district and a few others. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;EmySlywaK8MXs0lQKu7CuDeb5jgi73mr&#8221;]A total of 18,885 candidates are contesting in the District Assembly Elections and 43,585; the Unit Committee elections. The Electoral Commission has already sent electoral materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":112887,"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":[],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-147868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147868","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}