{"id":3030,"date":"2014-11-13T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2014-11-13T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:18:10","slug":"nadeco-tells-amaechi-kwankwaso-to-return-stolen-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3030","title":{"rendered":"NADECO tells Amaechi, Kwankwaso to return \u2018stolen mandate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Peoples-Democratic-Party-governors-who-defected-to-the-All-Progressives-Congress-360x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3031\" alt=\"Peoples-Democratic-Party-governors-who-defected-to-the-All-Progressives-Congress-360x225\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Peoples-Democratic-Party-governors-who-defected-to-the-All-Progressives-Congress-360x225-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Peoples-Democratic-Party-governors-who-defected-to-the-All-Progressives-Congress-360x225-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Peoples-Democratic-Party-governors-who-defected-to-the-All-Progressives-Congress-360x225-128x80.jpg 128w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Peoples-Democratic-Party-governors-who-defected-to-the-All-Progressives-Congress-360x225.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Democratic Coalition has condemned the actions of the five Peoples Democratic Party governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress, saying their action was overheating the polity.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition called on Nigerians to \u201csanction these men by disgracing them at the poll by handing them the red card of defeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NADECO said, \u201cIt is on this note that we renew the call on Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers State), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) and Magatakarda Wamakko (Sokoto) to do the needful by returning the mandate they stole from the electorate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National President of NADECO, Philip Agbese, while speaking with journalists in Abuja, said the defected governors had placed themselves, not just above the extant laws of their own states, but also above the constitution and the pronouncements of law courts.<\/p>\n<p>Agbese said the coalition was against the governors for allegedly destabilising the polity.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThese men embarked on the illegality on securing mandates from one political party and delivering the same party to another political party without recourse to the majority of the electorates in their states who braved the odds and the elements to vote them into power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Punch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Coalition has condemned the actions of the five Peoples Democratic Party governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress, saying their action was overheating the polity. The coalition called on Nigerians to \u201csanction these men by disgracing them at the poll by handing them the red card of defeat.\u201d NADECO said, \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Peoples-Democratic-Party-governors-who-defected-to-the-All-Progressives-Congress-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-MS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}