{"id":62657,"date":"2025-03-12T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62657"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:07:31","slug":"fubara-lockout-at-rivers-state-house-of-assembly-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/12\/fubara-lockout-at-rivers-state-house-of-assembly-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Fubara Lockout at Rivers State House of Assembly Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Siminalayi Fubara was met with locked gates at the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in a startling display of political friction.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claiming to have officially notified Speaker Martins Amaewhule of his visit via letter and multiple calls, security personnel at the complex denied any prior communication, barring the governor\u2019s entry.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected blockade has fueled speculation of deepening tensions between the executive and legislative arms of the state government.<\/p>\n<p>This incident comes amid growing political unease in Rivers, with former Governor Nyesom Wike previously expressing doubts about Fubara\u2019s engagement with the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The locked gates now symbolize more than just restricted access\u2014they highlight an ongoing power struggle that could shape the state&#8217;s governance in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Governor Siminalayi Fubara was met with locked gates at the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in a startling display of political friction. Despite claiming to have officially notified Speaker Martins Amaewhule of his visit via letter and multiple calls, security personnel at the complex denied any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62657","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\/62657","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=62657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62659,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62657\/revisions\/62659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}