{"id":221878,"date":"2026-01-25T23:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fubara-remains-apc-leader-in-rivers-says-bwala\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:30:01","slug":"nigeria-fubara-remains-apc-leader-in-rivers-says-bwala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fubara-remains-apc-leader-in-rivers-says-bwala\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Fubara Remains APC Leader in Rivers, Says Bwala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Amid the ongoing impeachment threat against Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, the Presidency has declared its support for the governor, stating that he is the leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">This was disclosed by Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Policy Communication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Governor Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, have been locked in a prolonged political struggle over control of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601230409.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>Amid the ongoing impeachment threat against Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, the Presidency has declared its support for the governor, stating that he is the leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. This was disclosed by Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Policy Communication. Governor Fubara and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221879,"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":[258,256,11297,48322,47733,7079,257,4687,393,7602,7865,254],"class_list":["post-221878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-bwala","tag-fubara","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-remains","tag-rivers","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\/221878","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=221878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}