{"id":78558,"date":"2025-11-12T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78558"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:11:24","slug":"igbokwe-seeks-sack-of-soldier-who-confronted-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/12\/igbokwe-seeks-sack-of-soldier-who-confronted-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"Igbokwe Seeks Sack of Soldier Who Confronted Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Joe Igbokwe, has demanded the dismissal of a soldier, Lieutenant Yarima, who clashed with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, during an inspection in Gaduwa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Igbokwe condemned the officer\u2019s conduct, describing it as gross insubordination and an affront to government authority.<\/p>\n<p>The altercation occurred when the soldier reportedly stopped Wike\u2019s team from accessing a disputed land, leading to a heated argument captured in a viral video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is beating the drum for him? His uniform has to be removed,\u201d Igbokwe wrote, urging military authorities to take swift disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation has since sparked public debate on the boundaries of military authority in civil administration within the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Joe Igbokwe, has demanded the dismissal of a soldier, Lieutenant Yarima, who clashed with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, during an inspection in Gaduwa, Abuja. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Igbokwe condemned the officer\u2019s conduct, describing it as gross insubordination and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78558","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=78558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78560,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78558\/revisions\/78560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}