{"id":47893,"date":"2024-09-10T09:20:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=47893"},"modified":"2024-09-10T09:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T09:20:38","slug":"pdp-condemns-president-tinubu-over-arrests-draconian-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/10\/pdp-condemns-president-tinubu-over-arrests-draconian-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Condemns President Tinubu Over Arrests, &#8220;Draconian&#8221; Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticized President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the arrest of Nigerians by security operatives, describing his policies as draconian and detrimental to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>PDP&#8217;s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, reacted to the recent arrest of Nigeria Labour Congress President, Joe Ajaero, by the Department of State Service (DSS) at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Ologunagba attributed the widespread protests across the country to the harsh economic conditions, stating that hunger and hardship are the true sponsors of the demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>He urged President Tinubu to address the root causes of the protests, rather than targeting individuals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government should arrest hunger, not people,&#8221; Ologunagba emphasized, highlighting the struggles Nigerians face amid rising costs and economic hardship, particularly with the upcoming school resumption.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP&#8217;s criticism reflects growing concerns about the government&#8217;s response to public dissent and the need for policies addressing economic hardship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticized President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the arrest of Nigerians by security operatives, describing his policies as draconian and detrimental to the nation. PDP&#8217;s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, reacted to the recent arrest of Nigeria Labour Congress President, Joe Ajaero, by the Department of State Service (DSS) at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":47898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-47893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-pdp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47893","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47899,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47893\/revisions\/47899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}