{"id":56117,"date":"2022-02-23T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=56117"},"modified":"2022-02-23T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:23:17","slug":"zamfara-deputy-governor-removed-by-state-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=56117","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara deputy governor removed by state lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zamfara deputy governor and son of a former National Security Adviser, Mahdi Aliyu Gusau, has been impeached, reports from Gusau, the state capital, say.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdi&#8217;s days appeared numbered when he refused to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) with his boss, Governor Matawalle.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from the state capital say the state house of assembly impeached him on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no word from the deputy governor&#8217;s office or camp since his removal became a fait accompli.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Mahdi had questioned the impeachment process, citing a subsisting suit he filed in court challenging the plans by the state assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zamfara deputy governor and son of a former National Security Adviser, Mahdi Aliyu Gusau, has been impeached, reports from Gusau, the state capital, say. Mahdi&#8217;s days appeared numbered when he refused to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) with his boss, Governor Matawalle. Reports from the state capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[359,301,3100],"class_list":["post-56117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-assembly","tag-impeachment","tag-mahdi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}