{"id":630,"date":"2026-08-15T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:08:31","slug":"election-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Osun 2026: Calm atmosphere, moderate turnout in Ejigbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moromoke Akanji<\/p>\n<p>Ejigbo<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Ejigbo Local Government Area, particularly at Moyofade Ward 14, remained calm on Saturday as residents turned out to participate in the Osun governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 voters began arriving at polling units around 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ad hoc personnel were already at their designated locations preparing for accreditation and voting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) devices were also observed to be functioning properly, while voters checked the voter register displayed on the walls ahead of accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Security personnel were also deployed to various locations within the ward, helping to maintain order and ensure a peaceful conduct of the election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of filing this report, voter turnout was moderate, although some party agents and voters expressed optimism that more residents would come out to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere remained peaceful across the area, with no major incident recorded as voting activities continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation in Ejigbo Local Government Area, particularly at Moyofade Ward 14, remained calm on Saturday as residents turned out to participate in the Osun governorship election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[422,421,423],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-atmosphere","tag-osun2026","tag-turnout-i"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG-20260815-WA0040.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}