{"id":223508,"date":"2026-02-11T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-supporters-seek-tinubus-intervention-over-continued-detention-of-enugu-lawmaker\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:09:34","slug":"nigeria-supporters-seek-tinubus-intervention-over-continued-detention-of-enugu-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-supporters-seek-tinubus-intervention-over-continued-detention-of-enugu-lawmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Supporters Seek Tinubu&#8217;s Intervention Over Continued Detention of Enugu Lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Enugu \u2014 Constituents and supporters of Hon. Bright Emeka Ngene, the detained member representing Enugu South Urban I Constituency in the Enugu State House of Assembly, have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene in what they describe as a prolonged incarceration that has denied their constituency democratic representation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">In a joint statement issued in Enugu yesterday, the group, comprising constituents and &#8220;concerned friends&#8221; of the lawmaker, also urged Enugu State Governor, Dr&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110256.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>Enugu \u2014 Constituents and supporters of Hon. Bright Emeka Ngene, the detained member representing Enugu South Urban I Constituency in the Enugu State House of Assembly, have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene in what they describe as a prolonged incarceration that has denied their constituency democratic representation. In a joint statement issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223509,"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":[258,256,8291,6978,12385,8895,12013,257,4687,393,7745,254,9064,34574],"class_list":["post-223508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-continued","tag-detention","tag-enugu","tag-intervention","tag-lawmaker","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-seek","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supporters","tag-tinubus"],"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\/223508","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=223508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}