{"id":2073,"date":"2006-10-18T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2006-10-18T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:21:00","slug":"nigerian-governor-in-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nigerian-governor-in-hiding\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian governor in hiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6061556.stm\">BBC<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The impeached governor of Nigeria&#8217;s Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose, has spoken from hiding for the first time, saying he is still in power and has not fled.<br \/>\nMr Fayose, who has not been seen since Saturday, was impeached for corruption along with his deputy on Monday. She is now challenging the move in court.<br \/>\nThe governor told Nigerian TV by telephone that his sacking was a coup attempt and he feared for his life.<br \/>\nSeveral high-ranking Nigerian officials have condemned the impeachments&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;If the Ekiti State matter is not resolved, it could turn into a major crisis for the whole country, our correspondent says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Early last week, Plateau State Governor Joshua Dariye was served with an impeachment notice in controversial circumstances that sparked riots in the central state.<br \/>\nPolitical tension is high in Nigeria ahead of elections due next April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we we were in Jos we were told that many of the electrical problems were due to the government trying to flush out someone &#8211; it may have been Dariye. According to a friend who&#8217;s spent time in Nigeria there were riots the day after we left Jos and 40 people were killed. I still haven&#8217;t seen a report on it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: The impeached governor of Nigeria&#8217;s Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose, has spoken from hiding for the first time, saying he is still in power and has not fled. Mr Fayose, who has not been seen since Saturday, was impeached for corruption along with his deputy on Monday. She is now challenging the move &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nigerian-governor-in-hiding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigerian governor in hiding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}