{"id":14172,"date":"2015-05-25T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14172"},"modified":"2015-05-25T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T16:52:15","slug":"battle-for-imo-assembly-speaker-naira-rain-for-members-elect-aspirants-woo-incoming-lawmakers-with-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14172","title":{"rendered":"Battle For Imo Assembly Speaker Naira Rain For Members-Elect Aspirants Woo Incoming Lawmakers With Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14173\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14173\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/naira.jpg\" alt=\"naira\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/naira.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/naira-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Okey Alozie<br \/>\nWithout stepping into the chambers of the Imo State House of Assembly for  inauguration to commence business  of lawmaking, members-elect of  the state legislature are already beaming with cheers and smiling to the bank courtesy of  free cash given  to them  by  colleagues seeking election as Speaker.<br \/>\nBarring no unforeseen circumstances, the House will have  a  new speaker early June  at the expiration of  the  tenure  of  Ben Uwajumogu-led lawmakers. The race  for  who succeeds  the  outgoing Ihitte  Uboma representative  has changed gear with some  of  the aspirants employing several methods to gain favour from  their colleagues.<br \/>\nTrumpeta was told that  money-game has  been imported  with suspected aspirants spoiling others with cash gifts and  other items.<br \/>\nThe two major contenders from  Okigwe  and  Onuimo are said to  be  at  the centre stage during  the  induction course which took place  in Abuja  last week.<br \/>\nThe newly elected house members had good movement as they have entertained lavishly by  the Hot contenders  of  the speaker&#8217;s seat.<br \/>\nThe succession war was clearly narrowed between the two major contenders and this for now have brought division between the elected members.  Moreover, the cold war  between  the  ranking members  and  first time law  makers  is said  to  have began immediately after the  induction programe.<br \/>\nFurther, information revealed that those who want to gain favour entered into special agreement after spending N100,000 to each member  including  plate  of  pepper-soup.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the state Government has sett up special committee to coordinate  the swearing in  ceremony.<br \/>\nThe committee is made  up  of  three commissioners to SSAs,  Head of Service and  Principal Secretary to  the  Governor.<br \/>\nMillions  of naira has  been budgeted for the ceremony. Governor Okorocha and  his  Deputy, Prince Eze  Madumere  who have  been away for  more  than  three weeks  now  are  expected  to  come  back this week.<br \/>\nOur  reporter  gathered  that  the  venue  for  the swearing-in will  be  decided  by the  Governor as soon as  he comes back.<br \/>\nFrom all indication, Dan  Anyiam&#8217;s stadium Owerri  will be chosen  because  of security and capacity.  The new House member is likely to be inaugurate 8th of June.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Okey Alozie Without stepping into the chambers of the Imo State House of Assembly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14176,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172\/revisions\/14176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}