{"id":36939,"date":"2024-07-01T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=36939"},"modified":"2024-07-01T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:43:15","slug":"vdm-come-and-arrest-me-too-seun-kuti-challenges-iyabo-ojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/01\/vdm-come-and-arrest-me-too-seun-kuti-challenges-iyabo-ojo\/","title":{"rendered":"VDM: \u2018Come and Arrest Me Too\u2019 \u2013 Seun Kuti Challenges Iyabo Ojo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oratokhai Jesusemen O.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Afrobeat singer Seun Kuti has dared Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo to arrest him, following her allegations that Kuti was among those enabling controversial social media activist VeryDarkMan to constitute a nuisance online.<\/p>\n<p>Kuti denied being a \u201cconfusionist,\u201d claiming that Ojo was \u201can oppressor.\u201d According to him, he was only against Ojo arresting VeryDarkMan and not their social media altercation.<\/p>\n<p>In a video message shared via his Instagram account, Kuti stated, \u201cI\u2019m not a confusionist. And there was no time I opposed you fighting VeryDarkMan. I only said you shouldn\u2019t be locking people up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re angry I said you shouldn\u2019t use the police to oppress people, please, don\u2019t be angry. Continue to be an oppressor. Use the police to arrest everyone. In fact, come and arrest me too. You guys are the billionaires, the owners of Nigeria, if you get angry, everywhere will explode. So don\u2019t be angry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apologize for myself and on behalf of VeryDarkMan. Please, don\u2019t flex your power. [Hisses] Nonsense!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that VeryDarkMan is currently in police custody on allegations of cyberbullying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oratokhai Jesusemen O. Afrobeat singer Seun Kuti has dared Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo to arrest him, following her allegations that Kuti was among those enabling controversial social media activist VeryDarkMan to constitute a nuisance online. Kuti denied being a \u201cconfusionist,\u201d claiming that Ojo was \u201can oppressor.\u201d According to him, he was only against Ojo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":36941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36940,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36939\/revisions\/36940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}