{"id":993,"date":"2026-09-08T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:51:37","slug":"by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"INEC fixes Sept. 19 for by-elections in 4 states\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INEC fixes Sept. 19 for by-elections in 4 states<\/p>\n<p>By Emmanuel Oloniruha<\/p>\n<p>Abuja<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Sept. 19 for the conduct of five by-elections in four states; Gombe, Kano, Bauchi and Delta.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Mr Tunde Oketola, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Oketola said that the by-elections comprised of one federal and four state constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to Oketola the by-elections will take place at Gombe\/Kwami\/Funakaye Federal Constituency in Gombe, while the state constituencies shall take place at Disina and Sakwa State Constituencies in Bauchi State; Udu and Dawakin Kudu in Delta and Kano State Constituencies respectively.(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Sept. 19 for the conduct of five by-elections in four states; Gombe, Kano, Bauchi and Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":990,"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":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260907-WA0070.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}