{"id":825,"date":"2017-02-28T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=825"},"modified":"2017-02-28T17:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:44:55","slug":"soludo-utomi-udenta-want-emergency-meeting-of-council-of-states-meeting-seek-kanus-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Soludo, Utomi, Udenta want emergency meeting of Council of States; seek Kanu&#8217;s release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-827\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-827\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/images-3-3-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof Pat Utomi.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFormer Central Bank Governor, Prof. Charles Soludu, economist and teacher, Prof. Pat Utomi, and Dr. Udenta Udenta are part of a Pan Igbo group, Nzuko Umunna, calling on the government to release detained Ipob leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and, swiping at the APC- led administration for failing to deliver on promises to Nigerians.<br \/>\nThey also told journalists in Abuja Tuesday that the government should learn to obey court orders.<br \/>\nSaid Soludo who spoke for the group: \u201cThere seems to be a national consensus that the current system cannot endure. We are in a state of emergency at all levels. The national council of states has to be convened urgently.<br \/>\n\u201cWe demand for the urgent release of Nnamdi Kanu and his colleagues as well as all prisoners of conscience\u201d, they said.<br \/>\n\u201dWe visited Nnamdi Kanu to hear his own point of view as well as share our own point of view with him.<br \/>\n\u201cWe believe that Nigeria has the potential to be great, and like most countries has its own challenges.<br \/>\n\u201cNigeria has never been more divided than now. Most discerning patriots have come to the conclusion that Nigeria as currently structured is destined to be a failed state\u200e.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is our considered view that most of the agitation is in response to a looting elite. We do not condone violence.<br \/>\n\u201cWe note that in 2015 Nigerians voted for change. As the ruling party, the APC has it duty to deliver to the Nigerian people.<br \/>\n\u201cSo far APC seems to have abandoned its cardinal duty to Nigeria.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Central Bank Governor, Prof. Charles Soludu, economist and teacher, Prof. Pat Utomi, and Dr. Udenta Udenta are part of a Pan Igbo group, Nzuko Umunna, calling on the government to release detained Ipob leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and, swiping at the APC- led administration for failing to deliver on promises to Nigerians. They also told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}