{"id":208594,"date":"2025-09-30T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndume-urges-tinubu-to-act-like-a-dictator-to-resolve-pengassan-dangote-face-off\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:57:55","slug":"nigeria-ndume-urges-tinubu-to-act-like-a-dictator-to-resolve-pengassan-dangote-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndume-urges-tinubu-to-act-like-a-dictator-to-resolve-pengassan-dangote-face-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ndume Urges Tinubu to Act Like a Dictator to Resolve PENGASSAN-Dangote Face-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume, has called on President Bola Tinubu to issue an executive order to resolve the ongoing dispute between the Dangote Refinery and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Ndume, who featured on Arise Television&#8217;s Prime Time on Monday, said he would not object if the president acted like a dictator in order to end the crisis triggered by the alleged sack of 800 refinery workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;The best thing is for the president to sign an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509300145.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>Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume, has called on President Bola Tinubu to issue an executive order to resolve the ongoing dispute between the Dangote Refinery and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). Ndume, who featured on Arise Television&#8217;s Prime Time on Monday, said he would not object if the president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208595,"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":[6991,258,256,4043,27982,27334,257,4687,393,52456,14942,254,8308,6810],"class_list":["post-208594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dictator","tag-faceoff","tag-ndume","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pengassandangote","tag-resolve","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-urges"],"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\/208594","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=208594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}