{"id":61560,"date":"2025-02-19T14:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61560"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:35:25","slug":"lagos-speaker-meranda-denies-resignation-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/19\/lagos-speaker-meranda-denies-resignation-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Speaker Meranda Denies Resignation Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mojisola Meranda, has dismissed speculation that she has resigned from her position.<\/p>\n<p>Her Chief Press Secretary, Segun Ajiboye, debunked the claim on Wednesday, February 19, following the circulation of an unsigned letter dated February 17, 2025, which falsely alleged that the Speaker had stepped down.<\/p>\n<p>The rumors stirred tension within the Assembly, prompting lawmakers to pass a vote of confidence in Meranda.<\/p>\n<p>During a plenary session, 36 out of 40 members reaffirmed their support for her leadership, rejecting any moves to reinstate former Speaker Mudashiru Obasa.<\/p>\n<p>Ajiboye dismissed the resignation claims as baseless, stating that Meranda remains in office and has no intention of stepping down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mojisola Meranda, has dismissed speculation that she has resigned from her position. Her Chief Press Secretary, Segun Ajiboye, debunked the claim on Wednesday, February 19, following the circulation of an unsigned letter dated February 17, 2025, which falsely alleged that the Speaker had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61560","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61562,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61560\/revisions\/61562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}