{"id":61230,"date":"2025-02-14T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61230"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:02:44","slug":"afenifere-leader-ayo-adebanjo-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/14\/afenifere-leader-ayo-adebanjo-dies-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Afenifere Leader Ayo Adebanjo Dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elder statesman and Afenifere chieftain, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has passed away at 96.<\/p>\n<p>He died peacefully on Friday, February 14, 2025, at his Lekki residence in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>A distinguished lawyer and nationalist, Adebanjo was a staunch advocate of true federalism and a key figure in Nigeria\u2019s political history.<\/p>\n<p>His family, in a statement, described his life as one dedicated to justice, equity, and national progress.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements will be announced later, while condolence registers have been opened at his Lagos and Ogun State residences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo\u00a0 Elder statesman and Afenifere chieftain, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has passed away at 96. He died peacefully on Friday, February 14, 2025, at his Lekki residence in Lagos. A distinguished lawyer and nationalist, Adebanjo was a staunch advocate of true federalism and a key figure in Nigeria\u2019s political history. His family, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61230","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\/61230","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=61230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61232,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61230\/revisions\/61232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}