{"id":241840,"date":"2026-08-22T20:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-rivers-adc-member-alleges-wikes-group-burnt-family-residence\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:08:56","slug":"nigeria-rivers-adc-member-alleges-wikes-group-burnt-family-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-rivers-adc-member-alleges-wikes-group-burnt-family-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Rivers ADC Member Alleges Wike&#8217;s Group Burnt Family Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The police said they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">A member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Rivers State, Isaiah Thomas, has accused members of the Rainbow Coalition, a political group led by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, of burning his family residence in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Mr Thomas made the allegation in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1Bx4RcejVL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video posted<\/a><\/strong> on Facebook after the incident at his family compound in Omuoko village, Aluu, where he said his mother,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210561.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 police said they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident. A member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Rivers State, Isaiah Thomas, has accused members of the Rainbow Coalition, a political group led by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, of burning his family residence in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state. Mr Thomas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241841,"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":[22947,258,256,20138,16292,5203,5192,6483,257,4687,393,13187,7865,254,42633],"class_list":["post-241840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleges","tag-burnt","tag-family","tag-group","tag-member","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-residence","tag-rivers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wikes"],"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\/241840","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=241840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}