{"id":8933,"date":"2016-10-06T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T12:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8933"},"modified":"2016-10-06T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T12:53:45","slug":"gor-mahia-to-go-to-polls-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-go-to-polls-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia to go to polls in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/rachier-mic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia chair Ambrose Rachier has announced that the club will hold its long awaited elections in December. According to a report posted on futaa.com, Rachier while addressing the media, stated that the club has revamped its constitution to be in line with the sport act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a new drafted constitution that will be passed by members before we go to elections. We have to comply with the Sports act first before we conduct our elections. We will hold a special general meeting on Sunday 9 October where all branch chairmen will attend and we will brief them on matters new constitution. They will discuss before the constitution I adopted.<\/p>\n<p>Rachier who has been under siege , sought to assuage the concerns of those who think the elections are being rigged by stating that they will be run by an independent body.<\/p>\n<p>-Elections will be free and fair in accordance with the Sports act, we will engage an independent body to ensure that elections are free and fair, he added.<\/p>\n<h3>Four Years<\/h3>\n<p>According to the Sports Act, an elected official will serve for two terms of four years each. For Gor Mahia, this likely means officials will be entrenched in office for four years. And that is why these are the most crucial elections the club has ever had. A mistake could cost the club four years of mediocrity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-go-to-polls-in-december\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia chair Ambrose Rachier has announced that the club will hold its long awaited elections in December. According to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,451],"class_list":["post-8933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ambrose-rachier","tag-gor-mahia-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8935,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions\/8935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}