{"id":77229,"date":"2025-10-23T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77229"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:38:39","slug":"tension-in-epe-ekiti-as-residents-protest-against-monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/tension-in-epe-ekiti-as-residents-protest-against-monarch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension in Epe-Ekiti as Residents Protest Against Monarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tension has gripped Epe-Ekiti in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State as residents and youths on Thursday staged a mass protest against their monarch, the Elepe of Epe-Ekiti.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, chanting songs of rejection and carrying leaves, marched through major streets, declaring that they no longer recognized the monarch and urging the state government to remove him.<\/p>\n<p>One of the protesters accused the government of imposing an unpopular ruler on the town, saying, \u201cWe, the people of Epe-Ekiti, do not want this king.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration disrupted activities for hours as security operatives monitored the situation to prevent violence.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, neither the Ekiti State Government nor palace officials had issued an official response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Tension has gripped Epe-Ekiti in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State as residents and youths on Thursday staged a mass protest against their monarch, the Elepe of Epe-Ekiti. The protesters, chanting songs of rejection and carrying leaves, marched through major streets, declaring that they no longer recognized the monarch and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77229","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\/77229","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77231,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77229\/revisions\/77231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}