{"id":63265,"date":"2018-07-30T14:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T13:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=63265"},"modified":"2018-07-30T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T13:16:32","slug":"eight-benue-lawmakers-attempt-to-impeach-gov-ortom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/eight-benue-lawmakers-attempt-to-impeach-gov-ortom\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Benue Lawmakers Attempt To Impeach Gov. Ortom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Another drama played out Monday morning in Benue State as eight members of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the House of Assembly threatened to issue notice of impeachment on<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Governor Samuel Ortom within the next seven days.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Daily Trust reports that the ousted Speaker, Terkimibi Ikyange- led<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">faction made the threat at a news conference in Makurdi.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It was gathered earlier that some youths at about 5:00am today occupied<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the Assembly complex over an alleged plot by some members to impeach the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">governor.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The police was however, said to have dispersed them (youths) with tear gas<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">canisters.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another drama played out Monday morning in Benue State as eight members of the House of Assembly threatened to issue notice of impeachment on Governor Samuel Ortom within the next&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eight Benue Lawmakers Attempt To Impeach Gov. 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