{"id":77530,"date":"2025-10-26T22:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77530"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:54:03","slug":"ned-nwoko-calls-for-justice-state-creation-in-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/26\/ned-nwoko-calls-for-justice-state-creation-in-south-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Ned Nwoko Calls for Justice, State Creation in South-East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"434\" data-end=\"653\"><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"434\" data-end=\"653\">\n<p data-start=\"434\" data-end=\"653\">Senator Ned Nwoko says peace will return to Nigeria\u2019s South-East if the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, is released and a new state is created in the region.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"821\">Speaking on Channels Television on Sunday, the lawmaker representing Delta North described Kanu\u2019s continued detention as unjust and a major cause of unrest. &#8220;If you want to get him tried and convicted, get on with it. But this is a guy who has been held unjustly,\u201d Nwoko said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"948\" data-end=\"1124\">He added that creating a sixth state in the South-East would address long-standing feelings of marginalisation, noting that the zone remains the only region with five states.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1252\">Nwoko revealed that he previously met President Bola Tinubu to discuss insecurity and political imbalance in the region.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1254\" data-end=\"1440\">Meanwhile, the National Assembly Joint Constitution Review Committee has approved the creation of a new South-East state, a move Nwoko described as \u201ca step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith Senator Ned Nwoko says peace will return to Nigeria\u2019s South-East if the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, is released and a new state is created in the region. Speaking on Channels Television on Sunday, the lawmaker representing Delta North described Kanu\u2019s continued detention as unjust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77530","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=77530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77532,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77530\/revisions\/77532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}