{"id":199603,"date":"2025-06-05T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-deputy-speaker-majority-leader-were-ousted-ondo-speaker\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T19:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:34:02","slug":"nigeria-why-deputy-speaker-majority-leader-were-ousted-ondo-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-deputy-speaker-majority-leader-were-ousted-ondo-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why Deputy Speaker, Majority Leader Were Ousted &#8211; Ondo Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Akure \u2014 THE Deputy Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Abayomi Akinruntan, has resigned from his position, while the Majority Leader of the Assembly, Mr Oluwole Ogunmolasuyi, stepped down from his position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Vanguard gathered that the change of the positions of the principal officers was to balance the unwritten elective political arrangements in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">While Akinruntan and Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa hail from Ilaje Local Council Area of the state, the former Majority Leader is from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506050540.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akure \u2014 THE Deputy Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Abayomi Akinruntan, has resigned from his position, while the Majority Leader of the Assembly, Mr Oluwole Ogunmolasuyi, stepped down from his position. Vanguard gathered that the change of the positions of the principal officers was to balance the unwritten elective political arrangements in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6012,7079,7334,257,4687,393,17686,14362,254,9632],"class_list":["post-199603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deputy","tag-leader","tag-majority","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-ondo","tag-ousted","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}