{"id":127775,"date":"2019-06-18T19:14:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127775"},"modified":"2019-06-18T19:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:14:37","slug":"bauchi-governor-suspends-inauguration-of-state-9th-assembly-opposition-says-its-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127775","title":{"rendered":"Bauchi Governor Suspends Inauguration Of State 9th Assembly, Opposition Says It&#8217;s Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bauchi-Gov-elect-To-Stand-Trial-Over-False-Declaration-Of-Assets.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bauchi State Government has postponed the Inauguration of the state 9th Assembly to Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The acting Clerk of the Assembly, Alhaji Umar Gital, announced the postponement in a statement issued to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Gital said the state government regretted the inconvenience the postponement of the inauguration earlier scheduled for Monday might have caused invited guests.<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that the 8th Assembly was dissolved on June 14 with the expectation of inauguration of the 9th assembly on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Gital, who confirmed that the inauguration would now take place on Thursday, at the state Assembly Chambers, said that \u201call inconveniences are highly regretted, please\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the state Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had faulted the postponement of the inauguration of the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of the party in the state, Alhaji Bako Hussaini, in a statement, said Nigeria\u2019s constitution did not confer the power on state governors to postpone the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Hussaini described Gov. Bala Mohammad\u2019s alleged action as undemocratic, null and void.<\/p>\n<p>He added that APC had a clear majority in the 9th Assembly in the state with 22 members as against the ruling PDP\u2019s 8 members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APC leadership in the state will not fold its arms to allow the ruling party to do anything contrary to the Constitution of Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bauchi State Government has postponed the Inauguration of the state 9th Assembly to Thursday. The acting Clerk of the Assembly, Alhaji Umar Gital, announced the postponement in a statement issued to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi on Monday. Gital said the state government regretted the inconvenience the postponement of the inauguration earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111929,"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":[292,7761],"class_list":["post-127775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-bauchi","tag-house-assembly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127775","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=127775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}