{"id":58076,"date":"2024-12-16T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58076"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:41:15","slug":"white-lion-threatens-legal-action-over-alleged-false-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/16\/white-lion-threatens-legal-action-over-alleged-false-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahaya Bello Spoils for Showdown with Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, popularly known as &#8216;White Lion&#8217; has threatened legal action against an online publication, Daily Excessive, for allegedly linking him to an attack on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.<br \/>\nIn a statement issued by his media office on Monday, Bello&#8217;s spokesperson, Ohiare Michael, described the report as \u201cmischievous\u201d and \u201csenseless,\u201d asserting that it was fabricated to tarnish the former governor&#8217;s reputation and strain his relationship with President Tinubu.<br \/>\n\u201cThe report falsely attributed derogatory comments to Yahaya Bello about the President,\u201d Michael stated.<br \/>\nHe dismissed the claims as a \u201cdesperate attempt by detractors to discredit the former governor,\u201d adding that the allegations lacked basis and intelligence.<br \/>\nThe statement clarified that court proceedings involving Bello and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), are public and transparent, rendering any such fabricated accusations baseless.<br \/>\nBello reaffirmed his loyalty to President Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC), emphasizing that such false reports would not deter his support for the party&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu Former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, popularly known as &#8216;White Lion&#8217; has threatened legal action against an online publication, Daily Excessive, for allegedly linking him to an attack on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a statement issued by his media office on Monday, Bello&#8217;s spokesperson, Ohiare Michael, described the report as \u201cmischievous\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58079,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076\/revisions\/58079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}