{"id":123,"date":"2012-11-01T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-11-01T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:33:00","slug":"why-akpabios-deputy-resigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Why Akpabio\u2019s Deputy Resigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: x-small;\">Though Mr. Nsima Ekere, the Deputy  Governor of Akwa Ibom State said he resigned from office  \u201con personal grounds\u201d, we can however authoritatively report that  he tendered his resignation letter when he got wind of an advanced plot  to impeach him from office following heightened tension between himself  and Governor Godswill Akpabio over his governorship ambition in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Another  factor that worked against Ekere was that he had on two instances in  the last few weeks frustrated Akpabio\u2019s plot to get assemblymen to  impeach the Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Elder Sam  Ikon. Sources said Akpabio was miffed at Ekere\u2019s interference in the  plot. <\/p>\n<p>The governor is believed to be grooming his SSG, Umana O Umana as his successor in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>There are 27 elected members in the state house of assembly.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-7RmcDo93vk4\/UJMGYYv1HZI\/AAAAAAAAAPE\/iPS2VeAg5I0\/s1600\/akpanere_124161045.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-7RmcDo93vk4\/UJMGYYv1HZI\/AAAAAAAAAPE\/iPS2VeAg5I0\/s320\/akpanere_124161045.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: x-small;\">It is authoritative that Akpabio had successfully mobilized assemblymen at the  State House of Assembly to begin impeachment proceedings against the  Deputy Governor tomorrow (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting with majority  of the assemblymen in his Ukana country home this morning, Akpabio  perfected the plot to ditch his deputy. The decision taken at the Ukana  meeting was however leaked to Ekere, forcing him to tender his letter of  resignation in order to block his impeachment and keep his 2015  governorship hope alive.<\/span>                                             <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4c7413c32c8cd925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" height=\"16\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" style=\"border: 0;\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Though Mr. Nsima Ekere, the Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State said he resigned from office \u201con personal grounds\u201d, we can however authoritatively report that he tendered his resignation letter when he got wind of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=123\" title=\"Why Akpabio\u2019s Deputy Resigned\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}