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Mr Essien said Governor Eno had, before now, spread empowerment and appointments across party lines, “but the current moves to exclude or sideline those who refuse to defect with him could erode that legacy of fairness and compromise.”<\/p>\n
A former Minister of Lands and Housing, Nduese Essien<\/a><\/strong>, said Akwa Ibom Governor, Umo Eno, was forcing state, federal lawmakers, and council chairpersons to join the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the action “calls into question the sincerity of the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Mr Essien said Governor Eno had, before now, spread empowerment and appointments across party lines, “but the current moves to exclude or sideline those who refuse to defect with him could erode that legacy of fairness and compromise.” A former Minister of Lands and Housing, Nduese Essien, said Akwa Ibom Governor, Umo Eno, was forcing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199937,"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":[5070,258,256,11297,16776,15344,4269,7107,14377,257,4687,393,254],"class_list":["post-199936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-exminister","tag-forcing","tag-governor","tag-join","tag-lawmakers","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/199936","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=199936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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