{"id":110040,"date":"2019-04-23T23:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T22:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110040"},"modified":"2019-04-23T23:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T22:37:44","slug":"rivers-assembly-takes-position-on-wikes-suspension-of-12-council-chairmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110040","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Assembly takes position on Wike&#8217;s suspension of 12 council chairmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Rivers-Assembly-takes-position-on-Wikes-suspension-of-12-council-chairmen.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Rivers State House of Assembly, on Tuesday approved the suspension of 12 council chairmen by Governor Nyesom Wike.<\/p>\n<p>The local government areas affected are: Okrika, Abua\/Odual, Emohua, Degema, Khana, Gokana, Ahoada East and Ikwerre.<\/p>\n<p>Others are: Eleme, Andoni, Omuma and Ogu\/Bolo local government areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive request was read by the Speaker of the House, Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani, for adoption, debate and approval by the lawmakers during plenary.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers agreed that the governor\u2019s action was in line with the Local Government Laws, 2018 as made by the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the House Committee on Local Government, Kelechi Nwogu, said the suspension of the council chairmen will serve as a deterrence to those, who might feel that they are above the law.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State House of Assembly, on Tuesday approved the suspension of 12 council chairmen by Governor Nyesom Wike. The local government areas affected are: Okrika, Abua\/Odual, Emohua, Degema, Khana, Gokana, Ahoada East and Ikwerre. Others are: Eleme, Andoni, Omuma and Ogu\/Bolo local government areas. The Executive request was read by the Speaker of the House, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5091],"class_list":["post-110040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-nyesom-wike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}