{"id":215893,"date":"2025-12-06T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cross-river-apc-impeaches-its-chairman-swears-in-replacement\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:30:05","slug":"nigeria-cross-river-apc-impeaches-its-chairman-swears-in-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cross-river-apc-impeaches-its-chairman-swears-in-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Cross River APC Impeaches Its Chairman, Swears in Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>The impeached chairman has dismissed his removal as &#8220;a joke&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The State Executive Committee (SEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State has announced the impeachment of the party chairman, Alphonsus Eba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nannews.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News Agency of Nigeria<\/a><\/strong> (NAN) reports that the SEC impeached the party chairman at its emergency meeting in Calabar on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">However, Mr Eba has dismissed his impeachment as a &#8220;joke&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">A source close to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512050456.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>The impeached chairman has dismissed his removal as &#8220;a joke&#8221;. The State Executive Committee (SEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State has announced the impeachment of the party chairman, Alphonsus Eba. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the SEC impeached the party chairman at its emergency meeting in Calabar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215894,"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":[258,256,11297,6888,8816,53053,257,4687,393,8146,7263,254,13017],"class_list":["post-215893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-chairman","tag-cross","tag-impeaches","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-replacement","tag-river","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swears"],"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\/215893","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=215893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}