{"id":97641,"date":"2026-02-22T04:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/97641\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:49:12","slug":"wike-monitors-fct-polls-orders-traders-to-close-up-channels-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/97641\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Monitors FCT Polls, Orders Traders To Close Up \u2022 Channels Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As FCT residents set out to elect representatives at the area council level, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, was on the ground to monitor activities within the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wike\u2019s first point of call was the polling units in Lagos Street, Garki 2.<\/p>\n<p>While monitoring activities there, he noticed some traders who opened up for business and immediately directed them to close up and obey the electoral guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2026\/02\/21\/fct-polls-inec-chair-promises-e-transmission-of-results-to-irev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> [FCT Polls] INEC Chair Promises E-Transmission Of Results To IReV<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is Wassa<\/p>\n<p>FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike monitoring the ongoing Area Council elections <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1z5Kqr9MMR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1z5Kqr9MMR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lere Olayinka \u2013 Aresa 1 (@OlayinkaLere) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlayinkaLere\/status\/2025192156634259806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He urged them to be good citizens by going out to vote and exercising their civic responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is Karshi<\/p>\n<p>FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike monitoring the ongoing Area Council elections <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JlHAvF1YM7\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JlHAvF1YM7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lere Olayinka \u2013 Aresa 1 (@OlayinkaLere) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlayinkaLere\/status\/2025191628512600096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wike was in Karu Chief\u2019s Palace, among other places, to monitor the ongoing elections.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 As FCT residents set out to elect representatives at the area council level, the Minister of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[5999,19071,3347,122,1205],"class_list":{"0":"post-97641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-fct","10":"tag-inec","11":"tag-nigeria","12":"tag-wike"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116112481483313694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}