{"id":2076,"date":"2006-10-19T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2007-02-15T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:50:21","slug":"state-of-emergency-declared-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/state-of-emergency-declared-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"State of emergency declared in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6065188.stm\">BBC<\/A>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared a state of emergency in Ekiti State, following the impeachment of the local governor for corruption.<br \/>\nMr Obasanjo said he was taking action because the governor&#8217;s sacking had been unconstitutional, and to prevent Ekiti descending into chaos.<br \/>\nBoth the chief justice and the attorney-general have said Ayo Fayose&#8217;s sacking was illegal.<br \/>\nPolitical tension is rising in Nigeria, ahead of elections next year.<br \/>\nMr Fayose has denied reports that he had fled the country, saying he was in hiding because he feared for his life but remained governor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared a state of emergency in Ekiti State, following the impeachment of the local governor for corruption. Mr Obasanjo said he was taking action because the governor&#8217;s sacking had been unconstitutional, and to prevent Ekiti descending into chaos. Both the chief justice and the attorney-general have said &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/state-of-emergency-declared-in-nigeria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of emergency declared in Nigeria<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-xu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}