{"id":161177,"date":"2019-10-18T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T06:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161177"},"modified":"2019-10-18T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T06:43:20","slug":"twitter-users-demand-anambra-governor-to-step-down-over-onitsha-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161177","title":{"rendered":"Twitter users demand Anambra governor to step down over Onitsha fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\/10\/Onitsha-Fire-Twitter-Users-Demand-Resignation-of-Anambra-Governor-Obiano.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Twitter users have called for the resignation of governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, following a tanker explosion in Onitsha on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The inferno claimed lives, razed shops, buildings and roads in a tragedy that last for more than seven hours.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the incident, one user @Lucyplun1, blasted Governor Obiano for his slow response in dealing with the emergency, while claiming that victims had to wait for the intervention of the Delta State fire service.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cA governor who doesn&#8217;t care about our feelings. A governor who couldn&#8217;t provide fire service in his state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf not for the intervention of Delta State Government, only God knows how many people would have been affected. #ObianoMustGo #ObianoHasFailed #ImpeachObiano.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another user, @teddyik001, said Governor Obiano should have resigned by now due to what he described as &#8220;negligence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIn a sane country, Obaino would have resigned. In a sane country, the fire service chief would have resigned or been sacked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a sane country, some people will pay for negligence. But this is Naija. #ObianoMustGo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling on Obiona to buckle down, @Geraldcake said a tragedy such as the tanker explosion must be avoided in future.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cObiano needs to sit up. He can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t leave because the state House of Assembly is filled with APGA loyalists. What we have to do is push him to sit up. #ObianoMustGo.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter users have called for the resignation of governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, following a tanker explosion in Onitsha on Wednesday. The inferno claimed lives, razed shops, buildings and roads in a tragedy that last for more than seven hours. Reacting to the incident, one user @Lucyplun1, blasted Governor Obiano for his slow response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161178,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13338,9691,13449],"class_list":["post-161177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-anambra-state","tag-obiano","tag-onitsha-fire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161177","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=161177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}