{"id":149456,"date":"2019-09-05T08:36:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149456"},"modified":"2019-09-05T08:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:36:58","slug":"elumelu-speaks-on-invasion-of-gov-umahis-abuja-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149456","title":{"rendered":"Elumelu speaks on invasion of Gov. Umahi&#8217;s Abuja residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/NASS-crisis-Elumelus-ally-Wole-Oke-reacts-to-his-suspension-from-PDP.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu (PDP-Delta), has decried the alleged raid on the Abuja residence of the Ebonyi State Governor and Chairman, South East Governors Forum, Chief Dave Umahi<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by the minority leader, the caucus said that the raid was a menacing and inexcusable development.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker said that the law enforcement agencies were free to do their job with respect to the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>The caucus said it was, however, worried that police authorities had denied foreknowledge of the operation and called for a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received with angst and rude shock the report of illegal raid on Abuja residence of the governor of Ebonyi and Chairman of South East Governors Forum, Chief Dave Umahi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the police high commands, including the office of the Inspector-General of Police, have distanced themselves from the operation makes it a suspicious operation,\u201d Elumelu said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker called on the Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr Mohammed Adamu, to intervene.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu (PDP-Delta), has decried the alleged raid on the Abuja residence of the Ebonyi State Governor and Chairman, South East Governors Forum, Chief Dave Umahi In a statement by the minority leader, the caucus said that the raid was a menacing and inexcusable development. The lawmaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133244,"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":[1262,13152],"class_list":["post-149456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-dave-umahi","tag-ndudi-elumelu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149456","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=149456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}