{"id":188517,"date":"2020-01-27T15:14:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=188517"},"modified":"2020-01-27T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:14:40","slug":"imo-pdp-chairman-charles-ezekwem-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=188517","title":{"rendered":"Imo PDP chairman, Charles Ezekwem resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Imo State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Charles Ezekwem has resigned from the party.<\/p>\n<p>Ezekwem said he resigned due to prevailing circumstances facing his party, and after due consultations with his family.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cIn view of the prevailing circumstances within my party, vis-a-vis my present standing as the state chairman of the PDP in Imo state and after due consultation with my family and with the approval of my supporters, I hereby tender my resignation as state chairman of PDP, Imo state and as a member of the party in the ward of Okigwe LGA, which has been duly communicated to the ward of Okigwe LGA\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank the teeming population of Imo state PDP, who thoughtfully elected me as their state chairman. I sincerely regret the inconvenience the party faces. I thank the party for the support they gave me and the opportunity to serve in that capacity.\u201dVanguard quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Deputy Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Okey Onyekanma, had last week resigned from his position.<\/p>\n<p>Onyekanma who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said that he took the decision to resign due to the zoning arrangement in the state.faa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imo State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Charles Ezekwem has resigned from the party. Ezekwem said he resigned due to prevailing circumstances facing his party, and after due consultations with his family. According to him, \u201cIn view of the prevailing circumstances within my party, vis-a-vis my present standing as the state chairman of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188518,"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":[3773,1,3,4],"tags":[30,11326,707,9768,9730],"class_list":["post-188517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-arewa","tag-crime-politics","tag-imo","tag-imo-state","tag-pdp-chairman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188517","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=188517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}