{"id":51683,"date":"2018-10-12T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51683"},"modified":"2018-10-12T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:14:06","slug":"arewa-ng-fayemi-floors-ekiti-pdp-lg-chairmen-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51683","title":{"rendered":"Arewa. Ng: Fayemi floors Ekiti PDP LG chairmen in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/fayemi.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A High Court in Ekiti State has turned down a request, seeking to stop the Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, from dissolving the 16 local government councils.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s Association of Local Governments of Nigeria led by the Chairman of Ifelodun\/Irepodun Local Government, Dapo Olagunju had filed the application through their lawyer, Obafemi Adewale, while Tajudeen Akingbolu and Adeoye Aribasoye appeared for Fayemi.<\/p>\n<p>Fayemi had challenged the jurisdiction of the court to hear the application on the grounds that the matter was speculative.<\/p>\n<p>While Fayemi was elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, all the Local Government chairmen are members of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP.<\/p>\n<p>However, ruling, Justice Abiodun Adesodun described the application as \u201cunmeritorious, preemptive and speculative,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there was no compelling fact in the application to warrant the granting of the order.<\/p>\n<p>Adesodun subsequently adjourned the substantive matter till October 22.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A High Court in Ekiti State has turned down a request, seeking to stop the Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, from dissolving the 16 local government councils. The state\u2019s Association of Local Governments of Nigeria led by the Chairman of Ifelodun\/Irepodun Local Government, Dapo Olagunju had filed the application through their lawyer, Obafemi Adewale, while Tajudeen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25489,"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":[4],"tags":[1412],"class_list":["post-51683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-nigerian-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51683","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=51683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}