{"id":190423,"date":"2020-02-02T17:16:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=190423"},"modified":"2020-02-02T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:20:35","slug":"edo-apc-chieftain-raises-alarm-over-obaseki-oshiomhole-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=190423","title":{"rendered":"Edo: APC chieftain raises alarm over Obaseki, Oshiomhole rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>An All Progressives Congress Chieftain in Edo State, Dr Blessing Agbomhere, says the rift between Gov. Godwin Obaseki and party\u2019s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, is degenerating.<\/p>\n<p>Agbomhere, a former governorship aspirant of APC in Edo, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday, called for a truce.<\/p>\n<p>He said the crisis did not only discourage potential investors from going to Edo but also de-marketed the state from other states and the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons, I am not happy with this present Government of Edo is that I feel that this crisis is de-marketing Edo to the rest of the states and the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, they have been burning cars in Edo. They have been shooting and harassing people in Edo. Have you ever heard this government prosecuting anybody for that?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means they are not aware or it means they are not working. So, in the last rally, at least we heard that cars were burned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I am a governor of Edo State, I will never support any attack whether in my interest or against my interest because the outcome will affect the Edo people and I will not tolerate it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I think that this present government has a challenge in its hand and also has the solution in its hand. I believe that the government knows how to solve it,\u2019\u2019 Agbomhere added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An All Progressives Congress Chieftain in Edo State, Dr Blessing Agbomhere, says the rift between Gov. Godwin Obaseki and party\u2019s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, is degenerating. Agbomhere, a former governorship aspirant of APC in Edo, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday, called for a truce. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190424,"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":[1,3,4],"tags":[13309,530,13242,243,62],"class_list":["post-190423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-13309","tag-edo","tag-edo-state","tag-nigeria","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190423","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=190423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}