{"id":223908,"date":"2026-05-05T06:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223908"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:56:28","slug":"reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223908","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReject Rice Politics, Demand Real Governance\u201d \u2014 Akoh Tells Benue South Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idoma elder statesman Dickson Akoh has condemned inducement politics in Benue South, warning that distributing items like rice and salt does not represent true democracy. In a statement ahead of the 2027 elections, Akoh described such gestures as temporary distractions that keep people dependent while masking deeper governance failures&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/2026\/03\/23\/reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idoma elder statesman Dickson Akoh has condemned inducement politics in Benue South, warning that distributing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters.jpeg",828,544,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters-300x197.jpeg",300,197,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters-768x505.jpeg",640,421,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters.jpeg",640,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters.jpeg",828,544,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters.jpeg",828,544,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters.jpeg",828,544,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters-825x544.jpeg",825,544,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223908-reject-rice-politics-demand-real-governance-akoh-tells-benue-south-voters-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\/223908","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=223908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}