{"id":236458,"date":"2025-10-12T08:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/igbo-group-accuses-gov-makinde-of-sponsoring-media-attacks-on-umahi\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:52:45","slug":"igbo-group-accuses-gov-makinde-of-sponsoring-media-attacks-on-umahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/igbo-group-accuses-gov-makinde-of-sponsoring-media-attacks-on-umahi\/","title":{"rendered":"Igbo group accuses Gov Makinde of sponsoring media attacks on Umahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>A faction of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has condemned what it described as a \u201ccampaign of calumny\u201d launched by Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state, against David Umahi, minister of works.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Saturday and signed by Okechukwu Isiguzoro, deputy president-general, and Chinyereze Thompson Ohia, national spokesman, the group accused the governor of instigating a media campaign against Umahi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOhanaeze Ndigbo unequivocally condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent scurrilous campaign of calumny launched by Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde against the esteemed political leader of Southeast Nigeria, Senator David Umahi,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The group alleged that Makinde was \u201csponsoring journalists and television anchors\u201d to attack Umahi and the federal government\u2019s infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur suspicions have been further reinforced by the disturbing patterns of conspiracies and clandestine strategies being enacted by opposition leaders led by Governor Makinde, who seek to leverage the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway to discredit the transformative projects of President Tinubu,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation demanded that Makinde retract his remarks and tender a formal apology to both <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>and Umahi.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content \/--><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- .share-buttons \/--><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A faction of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has condemned what it described as a \u201ccampaign of calumny\u201d launched by Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state, against David Umahi, minister of works. In a statement issued on Saturday and signed by Okechukwu Isiguzoro, deputy president-general, and Chinyereze Thompson Ohia, national spokesman, the group accused the governor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Okechukwu-Isiguzoro-636x424-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}