{"id":64979,"date":"2018-11-27T19:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64979"},"modified":"2018-11-27T19:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:53:03","slug":"atiku-reacts-to-alleged-move-to-impeach-akwa-ibom-speaker-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64979","title":{"rendered":"Atiku reacts to alleged move to impeach Akwa Ibom Speaker, Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Atiku-Ab.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday reacted to the alleged move to impeach the Akwa Ibom Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel.<\/p>\n<p>Reports had it that some lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress, APC, allegedly moved to impeach the Speaker of the State House of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Vice President described the action of the lawmakers as a threat to Nigeria\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the Waziri of Adamawa urged the Federal Government to direct security agencies to intervene in the matter and ensure that peace was restored.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar tweeted: \u201cThe ongoing siege of Akwa Ibom House of Assembly is reprehensible and stands condemned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch action is a threat to democratic institutions and portends grave danger to our democracy. The Federal Government should direct security agencies to rein in these anti-democratic elements and restore peace.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday reacted to the alleged move to impeach the Akwa Ibom Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel. Reports had it that some lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress, APC, allegedly moved to impeach the Speaker of the State House of Assembly. However, the former Vice President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11307,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64979","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=64979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}