{"id":64707,"date":"2022-05-13T16:21:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole"},"modified":"2022-05-13T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:30:20","slug":"no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole","title":{"rendered":"No crack in Kogi House of Assembly \u2013 Speaker, Mathew Kolawole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Mathew Kolawole, has debunked media reports that there is a crisis rocking the house under his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Fielding questions from journalists at the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ) Secretariat in Lokoja, on Thursday, Kolawole said those spreading the information are mischief-makers who never wanted peace in the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, in the history of the Assembly, he remains the longest-serving Speaker who brought unity among members in their legislative duties.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that it was false information that the Assembly is under lock and key and can no longer seat because of the internal wrangling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose spreading this fake news that there is a crisis in the Kogi State House of Assembly should desist. The Assembly under my leadership is not under lock and key and we are united as one family. We are in recess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would have held plenary, but because of fasting, Salah break, and the political activities we couldn\u2019t. If there is a crack in Kogi House of Assembly, how come I am the longest serving Speaker in the house?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Mathew Kolawole, has debunked media reports that there is a crisis rocking the house under his leadership. Fielding questions from journalists at the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ) Secretariat in Lokoja, on Thursday, Kolawole said those spreading the information are mischief-makers who never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,7450,7449,254],"class_list":["post-64707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-kogi-house-of-assembly","tag-mathew-kolawole","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>No crack in Kogi House of Assembly \u2013 Speaker, Mathew Kolawole - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Mathew Kolawole, has debunked media reports that there is a cris ...\" \/>\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\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No crack in Kogi House of Assembly \u2013 Speaker, Mathew Kolawole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Mathew Kolawole, has debunked media reports that there is a cris ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-13T15:21:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-13T16:30:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_5-627e877eeacb9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1401\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1050\" \/>\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\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"No crack in Kogi House of Assembly \u2013 Speaker, Mathew Kolawole\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-13T15:21:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-13T16:30:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole\"},\"wordCount\":209,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_5-627e877eeacb9.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Kogi House of Assembly\",\"Mathew Kolawole\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-crack-in-kogi-house-of-assembly-speaker-mathew-kolawole\",\"name\":\"No crack in Kogi House of Assembly \u2013 Speaker, Mathew Kolawole - 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