{"id":13674,"date":"2026-05-17T03:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=13674"},"modified":"2026-05-17T03:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:50:52","slug":"apc-primaries-for-the-house-of-representatives-has-commenced-in-bayelsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/apc-primaries-for-the-house-of-representatives-has-commenced-in-bayelsa\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Primaries  For The House of Representatives  Has Commenced In Bayelsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By  David Owei <\/p>\n<p>Despite mounting intrigues surrounding the mode of primaries and allegations of political interference by governors and other political leaders of the party ,the All Progressive Congress has commenced it&#8217;s National Assembly election in Bayelsa state,begining with the the House of Representatives,<br \/>\nas all is now set for the National Assembly Primary Elections of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state  to select candidates for both House of Representatives and Senate in various Wards across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing press conference on Saturday 16th, May 2026 at Golden Tulip  in Yenagoa, the chairman of the electoral panel for national and state assembly of the All Progressives Congress in bayelsa state, Chief Solomon Ogba in company of other committee members said, the briefing was  to signal the process of the election for candidates for House of Representatives and Senate for APC bayelsa state.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chief Ogba, &#8221; am happy that all relevant authorities associated with the conduct of the excercise are all ready. The committee has distributed Non-Sensitive materials to all the polling areas in the state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further said, the All Progressives Congress of Bayelsa state has decided to rely on section 84 sub- section 2 of the 2026 electoral acts  which is direct primaries for the excercise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We have painstakingly selected people that will conduct the election in all the wards and federal constituencies  for this excercise. They are people of proven integrity and we believe they are going to discharge this responsibility fairly. We also intend to conduct this excercise very fairly and  transparently. And we call on all of us to help us achieve this. Everybody will be given the opportunity to excercise his or her right&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>He commended the  government, party members and the people of Bayelsa state for the peaceful disposition towards the excercise.<\/p>\n<p>Answering questions from journalists, Chief Ogba declined on the number of aspirants going for the excercise, but said majority of them were cleared to participate in the election.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier in his welcome remark,  the Bayelsa  state chairman of All Progressives Congress , Hon. Warmam Ogoriba said, INEC, security agencies and all relevant authorities were already on ground for the excercise.<\/p>\n<p>He said members of the committee were sent to Bayelsa to conduct the national and state assembly elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Owei Despite mounting intrigues surrounding the mode of primaries and allegations of political interference by governors and other political leaders of the party ,the All Progressive Congress has commenced it&#8217;s National Assembly election in Bayelsa state,begining with the the House of Representatives, as all is now set for the National Assembly Primary Elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13676,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions\/13676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}