{"id":435065,"date":"2011-06-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/03\/inec-disowns-planned-%e2%80%98celebration%e2%80%99-of-jega\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T06:00:00","slug":"inec-disowns-planned-celebration-of-jega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/inec-disowns-planned-celebration-of-jega\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC disowns planned \u2018celebration\u2019 of Jega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>\n<span id=\"fullgist\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday disowned a programme of events to celebrate the INEC\u2019s chairman\u2019s one year in office being planned by a group named Nigeria Vote-Count Campaigners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The commission, in a statement by spokesman for the INEC boss, Mr. Kayode Idowu, said, \u201cThis programme, scheduled for Thursday, June 9, 2011, in Abuja, celebration of the widely applauded April 2011 General Elections in Nigeria and one year in office of Professor Attahiru Jega and his team of National Commissioners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAlready, invitation cards and a programme brochure bearing the INEC logo have been printed and issued to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe public is hereby advised that INEC\u2019s endorsement was not secured for the purported \u2018celebration,\u2019 neither did the INEC Chairman and National Commissioners, who are purportedly being celebrated, give their blessing to the planned programme. Even though a letter was written to the commission, the organisers did not wait for a response before going public with their preparations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201106034474450\" title=\"INEC disowns planned \u2018celebration\u2019 of Jega\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INEC disowns planned \u2018celebration\u2019 of Jega<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday disowned a programme of events to celebrate the INEC\u2019s chairman\u2019s one year in office being planned by a group named Nigeria Vote-Count Campaigners. The commission, in a statement by spokesman for the INEC boss, Mr. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":421988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-435065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INEC disowns planned \u2018celebration\u2019 of Jega - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/inec-disowns-planned-celebration-of-jega\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"INEC disowns planned \u2018celebration\u2019 of Jega - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday disowned a programme of events to celebrate the INEC\u2019s chairman\u2019s one year in office being planned by a group named Nigeria Vote-Count Campaigners. 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