{"id":58884,"date":"2025-01-04T02:51:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58884"},"modified":"2025-01-04T02:51:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:51:45","slug":"obi-visits-farotimi-after-prison-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/04\/obi-visits-farotimi-after-prison-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi Visits Farotimi After Prison Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Labour Party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has visited Dele Farotimi at his Lagos residence following the activist\u2019s release from prison.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Obi described Farotimi, his former campaign spokesperson, as a symbol of courage and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since his return from the correctional center in Ekiti, I have not had the opportunity to meet with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was pleased to find him in good spirits and deeply encouraged by his unwavering dedication to the struggle for a better Nigeria,&#8221; Obi wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi was detained for 21 days on allegations of defaming senior lawyer Afe Babalola in his book Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on December 3, 2024, and later granted bail of \u20a630 million on December 24.<\/p>\n<p>During his detention, Obi visited Babalola in Ekiti, sparking speculation about mediation efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent Labour Party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has visited Dele Farotimi at his Lagos residence following the activist\u2019s release from prison. In a post on X, Obi described Farotimi, his former campaign spokesperson, as a symbol of courage and resilience. &#8220;Since his return from the correctional center in Ekiti, I have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-58884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58884","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58886,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58884\/revisions\/58886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}