{"id":254455,"date":"2026-09-16T18:54:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=254455"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:02:54","slug":"nigeria-african-union-strengthen-cooperation-on-credible-elections-ahead-of-2027-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/nigeria-african-union-strengthen-cooperation-on-credible-elections-ahead-of-2027-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA, AFRICAN UNION STRENGTHEN COOPERATION ON CREDIBLE ELECTIONS AHEAD OF 2027 POLLS."},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Press-Statement-on-the-Audience-with-AU-Pre-Election-Mission-4-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Press Statement on the Audience with AU Pre-Election Mission 4 (1)<br\/><\/a>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-254456\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-254458\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-1-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-1-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-1-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-09-16-23-11-44-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hmos-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254460,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254455\/revisions\/254460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}