{"id":312219,"date":"2021-02-05T21:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=312219"},"modified":"2021-02-05T21:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:55:51","slug":"former-plateau-deputy-governor-jethro-akun-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=312219","title":{"rendered":"Former Plateau Deputy Governor, Jethro Akun is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jethro Akun, former Deputy Governor of Plateau State, is dead.<\/p>\n<p>Akun, 76, was an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and a Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) awardee.<\/p>\n<p>He served as Commissioner in Ministries of Information and Communication, as well as Youths and Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Akun, a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state chairman, was appointed as Deputy Governor to then Acting Governor Michael Botmang after Joshua Dariye was impeached in November 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Simon Lalong has condoled with the family.<\/p>\n<p>Lalong prayed that God rests Akun\u2019s soul and comfort those who mourn him.<\/p>\n<p>Plateau Speaker, Abok Ayuba, said the deceased exhibited diligence, honesty and patriotism during his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker added that said Akun\u2019s contribution to the development of Plateau and Nigeria would be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jethro Akun, former Deputy Governor of Plateau State, is dead. Akun, 76, was an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and a Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) awardee. He served as Commissioner in Ministries of Information and Communication, as well as Youths and Sports. Akun, a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state chairman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312220,"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],"tags":[4302,344],"class_list":["post-312219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-lalong","tag-plateau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312219","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=312219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/312220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}