{"id":242539,"date":"2026-04-25T05:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia-monarchs-confer-chieftaincy-title-on-tinubu\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:58:56","slug":"abia-monarchs-confer-chieftaincy-title-on-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia-monarchs-confer-chieftaincy-title-on-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Abia monarchs confer chieftaincy title on Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>The Umunneochi Traditional Rulers\u2019 Advisory Council in Umunneochi LGA of Abia, on Friday, conferred the chieftaincy title of \u2018Ike Oha 1 of Umunneochi\u2019 on President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>The title means \u201cthe strength of the people,\u201d and was conferred on the president at a civic reception, organised at Amuda Isuochi in honour of the immediate past Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mrs Nkeiruka Onyejeocha.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech, the Chairman of the council and Ezema III of Lokpa, Eze Franklin Ohalezim, said the honour was in appreciation of Tinubu\u2019s decision to appoint Onyejeocha into his cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>gave our daughter the opportunity to explore her talent and serve her people and society well as minister,\u201d Ohalezim said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding on behalf of the president, the National Welfare Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Donatus Nwankpa, thanked the royal fathers for the recognition as well as \u201cgifting their daughter for national service\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>said that it was difficult for him to accept her resignation and urged the traditional rulers to encourage her as she pursued her next political ambition.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Umunneochi Traditional Rulers\u2019 Advisory Council in Umunneochi LGA of Abia, on Friday, conferred the chieftaincy title of \u2018Ike Oha 1 of Umunneochi\u2019 on President Bola Tinubu. The title means \u201cthe strength of the people,\u201d and was conferred on the president at a civic reception, organised at Amuda Isuochi in honour of the immediate past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242540,"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":[176],"tags":[199,179],"class_list":["post-242539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abia","tag-abia","tag-tinubu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tinubu-commissions-projects-in-Ogun.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242539","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}