{"id":12942,"date":"2023-03-28T17:07:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12942"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:07:19","slug":"pdp-replaces-ayu-names-damagum-acting-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12942","title":{"rendered":"PDP Replaces Ayu, Names Damagum Acting Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has replaced its suspended National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu with one of his deputies, Amb Umar Damagum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Damagum, who was the Deputy National Chairman (North), will occupy the seat in an acting capacity pending the determination of the substantive suit restraining Ayu from parading himself as National Chairman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Benue High Court sitting in Makurdi on Monday ordered Ayu to step aside following a suit filed by his Igyorov Council Ward in Gboko local government area, Benue State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Ward Executive Committee suspended Ayu for alleged anti-party activities and failing to pay his membership dues.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has replaced its suspended National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu with one of his deputies, Amb Umar Damagum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6736,110],"class_list":["post-12942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-acting-chair","tag-pdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12944,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions\/12944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}