{"id":70346,"date":"2025-07-11T21:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70346"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:01:56","slug":"kingibes-aide-slams-wikes-spokesman-over-childish-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/11\/kingibes-aide-slams-wikes-spokesman-over-childish-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingibe\u2019s Aide Slams Wike\u2019s Spokesman Over \u2018Childish\u2019 Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have flared between Senator Ireti Kingibe\u2019s camp and Lere Olayinka, media aide to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, following personal attacks linked to the senator\u2019s recent comments on governance in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy Mbele, media aide to Senator Kingibe described Olayinka\u2019s remarks as \u201cchildish, irresponsible, and diversionary,\u201d accusing him of launching a smear campaign instead of addressing governance issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo aide resigned over unpaid salaries,\u201d Mbele clarified, responding to Olayinka\u2019s allegation. He added that disengaged staff received their entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>He warned FCT residents not to be distracted by Olayinka\u2019s \u201cshameful antics,\u201d insisting Kingibe\u2019s statements were issue-based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Tensions have flared between Senator Ireti Kingibe\u2019s camp and Lere Olayinka, media aide to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, following personal attacks linked to the senator\u2019s recent comments on governance in Abuja. Kennedy Mbele, media aide to Senator Kingibe described Olayinka\u2019s remarks as \u201cchildish, irresponsible, and diversionary,\u201d accusing him of launching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":70347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-70346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70346","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=70346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70348,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70346\/revisions\/70348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}