{"id":78059,"date":"2025-11-04T15:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78059"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:14:53","slug":"ypp-expels-lawmaker-urges-tinubu-to-act-decisively-on-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/ypp-expels-lawmaker-urges-tinubu-to-act-decisively-on-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"YPP Expels Lawmaker, Urges Tinubu to Act Decisively on Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Young Progressives Party (YPP), has expelled Hon. Uzokwe Lovepet Ifeanyi Peter, member representing Nnewi North\/Nnewi South\/Ekwusigo Federal Constituency, over alleged gross misconduct and anti-party activities.<\/p>\n<p>In a communiqu\u00e9 issued after its 28th National Working Committee (NWC), meeting in Abuja, YPP National Publicity Secretary Egbeola Wale Martins said the expulsion followed petitions and video evidence confirming Uzokwe\u2019s anti-party conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The party also dismissed Uzokwe\u2019s claim to be YPP\u2019s national leader, clarifying that no one has replaced the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah in that position.<\/p>\n<p>On national issues, the YPP urged President Bola Tinubu to end what it called \u201cyears of excuses\u201d in addressing insecurity and alleged religious killings, following the U.S. designation of Nigeria as a \u201cCountry of Particular Concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party criticised the government\u2019s failure to prosecute terrorism sponsors and condemned the policy of granting amnesty to insurgents while victims remain in IDP camps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this U.S. action compels urgency from the Nigerian government, it will be a welcome development. Peace cannot thrive without justice,\u201d the communiqu\u00e9 stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Young Progressives Party (YPP), has expelled Hon. Uzokwe Lovepet Ifeanyi Peter, member representing Nnewi North\/Nnewi South\/Ekwusigo Federal Constituency, over alleged gross misconduct and anti-party activities. In a communiqu\u00e9 issued after its 28th National Working Committee (NWC), meeting in Abuja, YPP National Publicity Secretary Egbeola Wale Martins said the expulsion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78059","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\/78059","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=78059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78062,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78059\/revisions\/78062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}