{"id":64675,"date":"2025-04-23T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64675"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:30:47","slug":"onjeh-accuses-benue-chief-judge-of-targeting-governor-alia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/23\/onjeh-accuses-benue-chief-judge-of-targeting-governor-alia\/","title":{"rendered":"Onjeh Accuses Benue Chief Judge of Targeting Governor Alia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/p>\n<p>Comrade Daniel Onjeh has levelled serious accusations against the Chief Judge of Benue State, Justice Maurice Ikpambese, alleging a personal vendetta aimed at frustrating the administration of Governor Hyacinth Alia.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released in Abuja, Onjeh claimed that Justice Ikpambese vowed to \u201cshow Governor Alia pepper\u201d and has allegedly been using the judiciary to undermine the state government.<\/p>\n<p>He described recent tribunal rulings nullifying local government elections as orchestrated attempts to destabilise governance in Benue.<\/p>\n<p>Onjeh further criticised the relocation of tribunal sittings from Makurdi to Abuja without prior consent, and accused the Chief Judge of enabling unqualified All Progressives Congress members to file petitions by granting illegal waivers.<\/p>\n<p>Calling for urgent intervention, Onjeh appealed to the National Judicial Council to investigate the conduct of Justice Ikpambese and safeguard democratic principles.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that unchecked judicial interference could erode public confidence and derail grassroots governance in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Comrade Daniel Onjeh has levelled serious accusations against the Chief Judge of Benue State, Justice Maurice Ikpambese, alleging a personal vendetta aimed at frustrating the administration of Governor Hyacinth Alia. In a statement released in Abuja, Onjeh claimed that Justice Ikpambese vowed to \u201cshow Governor Alia pepper\u201d and has allegedly been using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64675","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64677,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64675\/revisions\/64677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}