{"id":180275,"date":"2025-10-02T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=180275"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:56:58","slug":"inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=180275","title":{"rendered":"INEC Says Its Hands Are Tied on Premature 2027 Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, Nigeria \u2014\u00a0The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised concerns over the growing trend of incumbents leveraging their positions to gain unfair advantage through early election campaigns, despite existing legal restrictions. Victoria Etta-Messi, INEC\u2019s director of voter education and publicity, described the situation as \u201cdicey\u201d during an appearance on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post INEC Says Its Hands Are Tied on Premature 2027 Campaigns appeared first on The Trent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrentonline.com\/inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, Nigeria \u2014\u00a0The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised concerns over the growing trend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns.jpeg",1310,904,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns-300x207.jpeg",300,207,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns-768x530.jpeg",640,442,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns-1024x707.jpeg",640,442,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns.jpeg",1310,904,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns.jpeg",1310,904,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns-1024x707.jpeg",1024,707,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180275-inec-says-its-hands-are-tied-on-premature-2027-campaigns-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}