{"id":58927,"date":"2025-01-04T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58927"},"modified":"2025-01-04T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:54:21","slug":"pdp-demands-justice-over-alleged-assassination-attempt-on-senator-lawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/04\/pdp-demands-justice-over-alleged-assassination-attempt-on-senator-lawal\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Demands Justice Over Alleged Assassination Attempt on Senator Lawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kaduna State chapter of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), has condemned an alleged assassination attempt on Senator Lawal Adamu Usman, who represents Kaduna Central Senatorial District.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, PDP Publicity Secretary, Hon. Maria Dogo, revealed that the incident occurred on January 1, 2025, while Senator Usman was inspecting constituency projects in Kaduna North Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a deeply troubling incident. We demand a thorough investigation, immediate arrests, and prosecution of those responsible, including their sponsors,\u201d Dogo said.<\/p>\n<p>She also called for enhanced security for elected officials, emphasizing that violence has no place in democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP will not stand by while the lives of our representatives are threatened. Power should be contested through the ballot, not bullets,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The party urged calm among members and residents, assuring that legal steps would be taken to ensure justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority remains protecting democracy and ensuring the voices of Kaduna\u2019s people are heard,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai The Kaduna State chapter of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), has condemned an alleged assassination attempt on Senator Lawal Adamu Usman, who represents Kaduna Central Senatorial District. In a statement, PDP Publicity Secretary, Hon. Maria Dogo, revealed that the incident occurred on January 1, 2025, while Senator Usman was inspecting constituency projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58927","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=58927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58929,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58927\/revisions\/58929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}