{"id":62512,"date":"2025-03-10T13:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62512"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:05:50","slug":"resign-or-face-impeachment-apc-to-fubara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/10\/resign-or-face-impeachment-apc-to-fubara\/","title":{"rendered":"Resign or Face Impeachment, APC to Fubara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has issued a bold ultimatum to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, demanding his immediate resignation or warning of impeachment proceedings by the State House of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Rumuigbo, Obio\/Akpor LGA, APC leader Chief Tony Okocha accused Fubara of undermining reconciliation efforts, despite peace moves initiated by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>He described the situation as a &#8220;keg of gunpowder,&#8221; insisting the governor must step down or be removed.<\/p>\n<p>Okocha further accused Fubara of disrespecting President Tinubu, asserting that Supreme Court rulings provide enough grounds for his impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed the governor\u2019s reconciliation attempt with 27 pro-Wike lawmakers as a &#8220;Greek gift,&#8221; calling it legally questionable and belated.<\/p>\n<p>The APC leader warned that the party would resist any further negotiations, emphasizing that defying Supreme Court judgments was akin to &#8220;bringing pest-infested firewood home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With political tensions escalating, APC has made its stance clear\u2014Governor Fubara must resign or face impeachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has issued a bold ultimatum to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, demanding his immediate resignation or warning of impeachment proceedings by the State House of Assembly. At a press conference in Rumuigbo, Obio\/Akpor LGA, APC leader Chief Tony Okocha accused Fubara of undermining reconciliation efforts, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62512","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=62512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62514,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62512\/revisions\/62514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}