{"id":144146,"date":"2024-12-28T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies"},"modified":"2024-12-28T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:55:21","slug":"oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies","title":{"rendered":"Oshiomhole backs House of Assembly\u2019s suspension of council chairmen, deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has backed the State House of Assembly\u2019s suspension of the 18 elected local government chairmen and their deputies.<\/p>\n<p>Oshiomhole, now a senator representing Edo North senatorial district in the National Assembly, gave the backing to the House of Assembly\u2019s decision while speaking to newsmen at his residence in Iyamho, Estako West Local Government Area of Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>Oshiomhole alleged that the council chairmen were paying huge amounts to the immediate past Governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cpeople already know that there is a new Sheriff in town. He is stopping all the bad guys and stopping the bleeding that Edo was going through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not a secret that Local Government Councils were paying huge amounts of money to his predecessor (Godwin Obaseki), and he says \u2018stop\u2019, not while I am here. We want the money to be used to develop the localities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Edo State House of Assembly had on December 17, 2024, suspended the 18 Local government chairmen and their deputies for two months for alleged insubordination and gross misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The council executives were suspended following a petition to the House by the State Governor, Monday Okpebholo who accused the council executives of refusing to submit financial account statements of their local government to the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a statement by Fred Itua, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Monday Okpebholo and made available to newsmen on Friday in Benin City, however, said the senator scored Governor Okpebholo high in his first month in office.<\/p>\n<p>He observed that Governor Okpebholo had within one month in office set a new record in the history of governance in the State.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time governor of the State who expressed satisfaction with Governor Okpebholo\u2019s pragmatic approach to governance, noted that Edo people can now experience true and practical governance after eight years of Obaseki\u2019s rhetoric and MOUs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has backed the State House of Assembly\u2019s suspension of the 18 elected local government chairmen and their deputies. Oshiomhole, now a senator representing Edo North senatorial district in the National Assembly, gave the backing to the House of Assembly\u2019s decision while speaking to newsmen at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":144145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[821,254,376],"class_list":["post-144146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-house-of-assembly","tag-nigeria","tag-oshiomhole"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oshiomhole backs House of Assembly\u2019s suspension of council chairmen, deputies - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has backed the State House of Assembly\u2019s suspension of the 18 elected loc ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oshiomhole backs House of Assembly\u2019s suspension of council chairmen, deputies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has backed the State House of Assembly\u2019s suspension of the 18 elected loc ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-12-28T13:52:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-28T14:55:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/sm_1735385070.215457.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1098\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"604\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Oshiomhole backs House of Assembly\u2019s suspension of council chairmen, deputies\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-12-28T13:52:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-28T14:55:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies\"},\"wordCount\":339,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/sm_1735385070.215457.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"House of Assembly\",\"Nigeria\",\"Oshiomhole\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oshiomhole-backs-house-of-assemblys-suspension-of-council-chairmen-deputies\",\"name\":\"Oshiomhole backs House of Assembly\u2019s suspension of council chairmen, deputies - 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