{"id":175964,"date":"2025-08-25T11:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:21:26","slug":"benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference","title":{"rendered":"Benue Speaker Resignation Personal Principle Not Interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Benue State House of Assembly has said Governor Hyacinth Alia cannot control lawmakers of the Assembly, stressing that the resignation of its Speaker, Aondona Dajoh, was based on personal principle and not linked to any interference by the governor.<\/p>\n<p>Benue Assembly spokesperson, Elias Audu, stated this on Monday, while responding to questions on \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>Audu stated that lawmakers remain \u201cindependent-minded\u201d and cannot be \u201ccoerced\u201d into any action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the governor had an interest, whatever it is, it is not within the knowledge of the Assembly. We don\u2019t know. The Speaker was doing his job, and after some time, maybe because of certain decisions, he thanked the people for their support, and now he said it is time to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced that the Speaker resigned based on personal principle. We are in a political dispensation; we are playing politics, but if there are political undertones, there is no fighting in the Benue Assembly. Because the members are independent-minded, you can\u2019t coerce them,\u201d Audu said.<\/p>\n<p>Dajoh had tendered his resignation in a letter on Sunday, saying it was in good faith and in the best interest of the state.<\/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. The Benue State House of Assembly has said Governor Hyacinth Alia cannot control lawmakers of the Assembly, stressing that the resignation of its Speaker, Aondona Dajoh, was based on personal principle and not linked to any interference by the governor. Benue Assembly spokesperson, Elias Audu, stated this on Monday, while responding to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[9994,331,254],"class_list":["post-175964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-alia","tag-benue","tag-nigeria"],"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>Benue Speaker Resignation Personal Principle Not Interference - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Benue State House of Assembly has said Governor Hyacinth Alia cannot control lawmakers of the Assembly, stressing th ...\" \/>\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\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benue Speaker Resignation Personal Principle Not Interference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Benue State House of Assembly has said Governor Hyacinth Alia cannot control lawmakers of the Assembly, stressing th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-25T10:18:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-25T11:21:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756108443.653457.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"608\" \/>\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\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Benue Speaker Resignation Personal Principle Not Interference\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-25T10:18:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-25T11:21:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference\"},\"wordCount\":218,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756108443.653457.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Alia\",\"Benue\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-speaker-resignation-personal-principle-not-interference\",\"name\":\"Benue Speaker Resignation Personal Principle Not Interference - 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