{"id":68026,"date":"2013-04-22T21:21:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T21:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/04\/oshiomhole-swears-in-lg-chairmen\/"},"modified":"2013-04-22T21:21:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T21:21:48","slug":"oshiomhole-swears-in-lg-chairmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/04\/22\/oshiomhole-swears-in-lg-chairmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Oshiomhole swears in LG chairmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49.1262135922\">\n<p>BY SIMON EBEGBULEM<\/p>\n<p>BENIN\u2014THE 14 newly elected local government area chairmen on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in weekend\u2019s elections in Edo State, were sworn-in, yesterday, by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.<\/p>\n<p>He also ordered Edo State Independent Electoral Commission, EDSIEC, to apologise to the people of the state for the lapses recorded in the council elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the event, the governor said: \u201cI want to reassure, not only Edo people but all Nigerians, that I am committed and I remain committed and I shall ever be committed to the principle of one man one vote.\u00a0 It is not a choice.\u00a0 In a democracy, there is no alternative to that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last election, there were issues that deeply troubled me.\u00a0 The fact that election materials did not arrive on time from Lagos, as a responsible government, we did our best to ensure that those materials were properly secured.\u00a0 We did our best to ensure that the materials were delivered to EDSIEC.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BY SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN\u2014THE 14 newly elected local government area chairmen on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in weekend\u2019s elections in Edo State, were sworn-in, yesterday, by Governor Adams Oshiomhole. He also ordered Edo State Independent Electoral Commission, EDSIEC, to apologise to the people of the state for the lapses recorded in the council elections&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}