{"id":3584,"date":"2021-03-24T12:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:05:44","slug":"no-elections-in-2022-kiirs-right-to-lead-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/no-elections-in-2022-kiirs-right-to-lead-official\/","title":{"rendered":"No elections in 2022, Kiir\u2019s right to lead-Official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-of-No.-1-Citizen-Daily-Newspapers-publication-on-Wednesday-24th-March-2021.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-of-No.-1-Citizen-Daily-Newspapers-publication-on-Wednesday-24th-March-2021.png 480w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-of-No.-1-Citizen-Daily-Newspapers-publication-on-Wednesday-24th-March-2021-150x300.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption>Screenshot of No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper&#8217;s publication on Wednesday 24th March 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By\nOpio Jackson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nOffice of the President said there is no election in 2022 due to the time lost.\nNhial Deng Nhial Minister of Presidential Affairs said it is President Salva\nKiir\u2019s right to lead South Sudan at least till next elections determines the\npost transitional power architecture. \u201cThe call for early election in 2020 is\nagain without justification. It must be born in mind that the actual\ninauguration of the (R-TGoNU) following conclusion of the agreement in\nSeptember 2018 to the same time. The time lost must be recouped so that there\nis adequate time to complete all the tasks of transitional period before elections\nare held,\u201d Nhail said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nstatement was in response to the earlier calls made by Dr. Peter Biar Ajak,\npolitical activist during his testimony before the US senate committee on\nforeign relations weeks ago.&nbsp; In his\naddress to the US senate, Peter Biar claimed that President Salva Kiir was not\nelected by the South Sudanese but appointed after the country became independent\nin 2011. Nhail said legitimacy does not stem from form but rather substance or\nessence,\u201d When President Kiir was elected in 2010 as the President of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government of Southern Sudan those who cast their ballots for him are the very same South Sudanese who would have done again had elections been held in  2015\u201d said Nhial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Opio Jackson The Office of the President said there is no election in 2022 due to the time lost. Nhial Deng Nhial Minister of Presidential Affairs said it is President Salva Kiir\u2019s right to lead South Sudan at least till next elections determines the post transitional power architecture. \u201cThe<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/no-elections-in-2022-kiirs-right-to-lead-official\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3590,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}