{"id":62488,"date":"2025-03-10T11:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62488"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:38:19","slug":"mr-macaroni-stands-firm-refuses-to-greet-sanwo-olu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/10\/mr-macaroni-stands-firm-refuses-to-greet-sanwo-olu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Macaroni Stands Firm, Refuses to Greet Sanwo-Olu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Popular comedian and activist Adebowale Adedayo, known as Mr Macaroni, has doubled down on his decision to snub Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, insisting he has no regrets.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, Mr Macaroni dismissed criticisms over his stance, stating that even if given another chance, he would not acknowledge the governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the last time I will address this matter. It is not worth my peace of mind,\u201d he wrote, slamming Nigerians who defend politicians yet suffer under poor governance.<\/p>\n<p>He accused some critics of hypocrisy, claiming they secretly take bribes while publicly condemning leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming his commitment to holding leaders accountable, Mr Macaroni rejected pressure to conform, declaring that he would never betray his conscience.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged Nigerians to rise above tribalism and work towards national unity and justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi Popular comedian and activist Adebowale Adedayo, known as Mr Macaroni, has doubled down on his decision to snub Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, insisting he has no regrets. In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, Mr Macaroni dismissed criticisms over his stance, stating that even if given another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62488","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=62488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62490,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62488\/revisions\/62490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}