{"id":1968,"date":"2023-09-14T06:49:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T06:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2023-09-14T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:52:23","slug":"demolition-showdown-fct-senator-kindibe-wike-draw-battle-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/14\/demolition-showdown-fct-senator-kindibe-wike-draw-battle-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition Showdown: FCT Senator Kingibe, Wike Draw Battle Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>***Senator Insists Wike Needs NASS Approval for Demolition\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ireti Kingibe of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike have sparked a political firestorm over the proposed demolition of some buildings in the nation&#8217;s capital. The projected destruction has set up a tense confrontation between the Senator and the Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a press briefing after the Tribunal affirmed her victory as duly elected Senator, Kingibe wasted no time in condemning the Minister&#8217;s proposed demolition, asserting that such an action required proper approval from the legislative body.<\/p>\n<p>She is the highest elected official in the FCT, according to her. She asserted that Wike has different political interests that may differ from those of the people of the FCT because he was not elected by them.<\/p>\n<p>On the opposing side of the conflict, FCT Minister Wike stated that he will demolish any structures in the FCT that are not in accordance with the city&#8217;s Master Plan.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy has now escalated into a full-blown political feud, with both sides garnering support and criticism from\u00a0various quarters.<\/p>\n<p>As the conflict rages on, many are left wondering whether this clash between Senator Kingibe and Minister Wike will result in a reevaluation of the city&#8217;s urban development policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***Senator Insists Wike Needs NASS Approval for Demolition\u00a0 &nbsp; Senator Ireti Kingibe of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike have sparked a political firestorm over the proposed demolition of some buildings in the nation&#8217;s capital. The projected destruction has set up a tense confrontation between the Senator and the Minister. Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}