{"id":158968,"date":"2025-04-09T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators"},"modified":"2025-04-15T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:23:52","slug":"rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators","title":{"rendered":"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Lere Olayinka, the media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, described the House of Representatives member from Ideato North and South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Imo Ikenga Ugochinyere, as a political \u201cHushpuppi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olayinka said Ugochinyere has been silent over the appointment of 23 administrators to preside over the local government areas of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the chairmen elected were suspended following the emergency rule declared by President Bola Tinubu in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency rule was declared due to the political crisis between Wike and Governor Sim Fubara who was also suspended for six months.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the crisis with Wike, Ugochinyere has backed Fubara and the suspended administration in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>However, Olayinka wondered why the lawmaker has been silent over the appointment of local government administrators.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, Olayinka wrote: \u201cWe told Fubara that Ugochinyere is a Political Hushpuppi, he (Fubara) didn\u2019t listen. Where is Ugochinyere today?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWon\u2019t Ugochinyere do Live TV Press Conference on this appointment of LG Sole Administrators and SIEC members in Rivers State?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbi why is @IkengaImo, Spokesperson of Opposition Lawmakers suddenly silent like this?\u201d<\/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. Lere Olayinka, the media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, described the House of Representatives member from Ideato North and South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Imo Ikenga Ugochinyere, as a political \u201cHushpuppi.\u201d Olayinka said Ugochinyere has been silent over the appointment of 23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":158967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[9896,254,11720,16817],"class_list":["post-158968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ikenga-ugochinyere","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers-crisis","tag-wikes"],"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>Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lere Olayinka, the media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, describe ...\" \/>\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\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lere Olayinka, the media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, describe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-09T11:06:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-15T11:23:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-09T11:06:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-15T11:23:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators\"},\"wordCount\":219,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ikenga Ugochinyere\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers crisis\",\"Wike's\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators\",\"name\":\"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-09T11:06:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-15T11:23:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Lere Olayinka, the media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, describe ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":667,\"caption\":\"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators - Nigeria","description":"Lere Olayinka, the media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, describe ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators","og_description":"Lere Olayinka, the media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, describe ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-04-09T11:06:42+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-04-15T11:23:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":667,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators","datePublished":"2025-04-09T11:06:42+00:00","dateModified":"2025-04-15T11:23:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators"},"wordCount":219,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg","keywords":["Ikenga Ugochinyere","Nigeria","Rivers crisis","Wike's"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators","name":"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg","datePublished":"2025-04-09T11:06:42+00:00","dateModified":"2025-04-15T11:23:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Lere Olayinka, the media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, describe ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744188342.399432.jpg","width":1000,"height":667,"caption":"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-ikenga-ugochinyere-a-political-hushpuppi-wikes-aide-on-appointment-of-23-lgs-administrators#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rivers crisis: Ikenga Ugochinyere, a political Hushpuppi \u2013 Wike\u2019s aide on appointment of 23 LGs administrators"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}