{"id":150646,"date":"2019-09-09T19:50:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T18:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150646"},"modified":"2019-09-09T19:50:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T18:50:55","slug":"wike-vs-muslims-fayemi-supports-rivers-governor-over-disputed-mosque-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150646","title":{"rendered":"Wike Vs Muslims: Fayemi Supports Rivers Governor Over Disputed Mosque Demolition"},"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\/09\/Wike-Vs-Muslims-Fayemi-Supports-Rivers-Governor-Over-Disputed-Mosque-Demolition.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has thrown his weight behind<br \/>\nRivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, over the alleged demolition of a<br \/>\nmosque in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the Nigerian Governors\u2019 Forum on Sunday after visiting<br \/>\nthe site in the dispute said he could not see any evidence that Wike<br \/>\ndemolished any mosque in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Fayemi stated following the inspection, \u201cWith what I\u2019ve seen, I cannot<br \/>\nsee any evidence of any building that has been demolished here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you (Wike) are somebody who wants a place of worship, you should<br \/>\nfind a way to oblige them. I know within your capacity, it\u2019ll be<br \/>\npossible to find a place for them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From what I\u2019ve seen here, I think it is a storm in a teacup. There is<br \/>\nnothing to warrant this kind of media hype that has been given to it,\u201d<br \/>\nFayemi said.<\/p>\n<p>Wike, who conducted Fayemi around the disputed site, stated: \u201cI want<br \/>\nto thank the chairman of my forum for at least coming to see things<br \/>\nfor himself. He called me while he was away and I told him, you know<br \/>\nthat I can\u2019t do something like that and he said okay when he comes<br \/>\nback, he is coming to see me and he has fulfilled that promise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That shows leadership, and from what he has seen, there was no<br \/>\nmosque. There is no way I\u2019ll see a mosque and order the Ministry of<br \/>\nUrban Development to go and demolish a mosque.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssuming that there is even a mosque and that government doesn\u2019t want<br \/>\nit at that location, we\u2019ll invite them and say look, we don\u2019t want a<br \/>\nmosque there, can we find you an alternative place?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there was no mosque. I don\u2019t know why people should make politics<br \/>\nout of the issue. It\u2019s not important,\u201d Wike explained.<br \/>\n<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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has thrown his weight behind Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, over the alleged demolition of a mosque in Port Harcourt. The chairman of the Nigerian Governors\u2019 Forum on Sunday after visiting the site in the dispute said he could not see any evidence that Wike demolished any mosque in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150647,"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":[3773,1,3,4,2677],"tags":[2658],"class_list":["post-150646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","category-politics","category-religious","tag-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150646","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=150646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}