{"id":62859,"date":"2025-03-16T17:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62859"},"modified":"2025-03-16T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:38:51","slug":"atiku-backs-lagos-corps-member-over-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/16\/atiku-backs-lagos-corps-member-over-viral-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Backs Lagos Corps Member Over Viral Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind Ushie Uguamaye, a National Youth Service Corps member in Lagos, who alleged she received threats after criticizing President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s administration in a viral video.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on X, Atiku praised Uguamaye, also known as Raye, for her courage, describing her as a beacon of politically active young women.<\/p>\n<p>He compared her boldness to that of legendary activists like Gambo Sawaba, Funmilayo Ransom Kuti, and Margaret Ekpo, urging Nigerians to support rather than intimidate her.<\/p>\n<p>Raye&#8217;s video, posted on TikTok under the name #talktoraye, condemned rising inflation and economic hardship in the country.<\/p>\n<p>She labeled Tinubu a &#8220;terrible leader&#8221; and questioned the government&#8217;s handling of the crisis, sparking both praise and backlash online.<\/p>\n<p>Following the video&#8217;s spread, Raye claimed NYSC officials pressured her to take it down.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are yet to respond to the allegations as public debate over freedom of speech intensifies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind Ushie Uguamaye, a National Youth Service Corps member in Lagos, who alleged she received threats after criticizing President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s administration in a viral video. In a statement on X, Atiku praised Uguamaye, also known as Raye, for her courage, describing her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62859","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\/62859","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=62859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62861,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62859\/revisions\/62861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}