{"id":46616,"date":"2026-07-31T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=46616"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:48:20","slug":"eastern-equatoria-splm-leaders-endorse-louis-lobong-for-2026-governorship-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/eastern-equatoria-splm-leaders-endorse-louis-lobong-for-2026-governorship-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Equatoria SPLM leaders endorse Louis Lobong for 2026 governorship race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Ijoo Bosco<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Members of the SPLM Political Bureau and Liberation Council in Eastern Equatoria State have unanimously endorsed Governor Louis Lobong Lojore as the party&#8217;s candidate for the governorship in the 2026 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement was made during the Martyrs Day Commemoration in Torit, announced by the Party\u2019s Secretary General in the State, Akileo Mbuya, in the presence of the entire public.<\/p>\n<p>Akileo urged the county and national members to endorse Lobong as a flagbearer for the governorship in the state.<\/p>\n<p>All the national and county party liberation members expressed confidence in Lobong&#8217;s leadership and pledged their full support for his re-election bid.<\/p>\n<p>The Political Bureau and Liberation Council described the endorsement as a demonstration of party unity and commitment to maintaining stability, peace, and development in Eastern Equatoria ahead of the December 2026 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders urged SPLM members and supporters across the state to remain united, strengthen grassroots mobilisation, and actively participate in the electoral process to ensure the party&#8217;s success in the upcoming polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ijoo Bosco Members of the SPLM Political Bureau and Liberation Council in Eastern Equatoria State have unanimously endorsed Governor Louis Lobong Lojore as the party&#8217;s candidate for the governorship in the 2026 general elections. The endorsement was made during the Martyrs Day Commemoration in Torit, announced by the Party\u2019s<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/eastern-equatoria-splm-leaders-endorse-louis-lobong-for-2026-governorship-race\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eastern-Equatoria-SPLM-leaders-endorse-Louis-Lobong-for-2026-governorship-race.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46616","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46618,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46616\/revisions\/46618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}