{"id":66472,"date":"2025-05-24T21:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66472"},"modified":"2025-05-24T21:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T21:01:56","slug":"adeyanju-accuses-obidients-of-gagging-sowore-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/24\/adeyanju-accuses-obidients-of-gagging-sowore-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Adeyanju Accuses Obidients of Gagging Sowore Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Activist Deji Adeyanju has slammed supporters of Peter Obi, widely known as the Obidients, over what he described as a coordinated attack on the Facebook page of fellow activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyanju claimed the group mass-reported Sowore\u2019s page, leading to its temporary suspension-a move he called an attack on democratic debate and a dangerous trend in political intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not how to build a better Nigeria,\u201d Adeyanju warned, insisting that suppressing criticism betrays the democratic values the Obidient movement claims to uphold.<\/p>\n<p>He defended Sowore\u2019s right to question Obi\u2019s political record, citing controversies from Obi\u2019s time as Anambra governor, including health sector strikes, educational decline, and unresolved killings of pro-Biafra protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyanju also took aim at Obi\u2019s party-hopping history, from APGA to PDP to Labour Party, suggesting a lack of ideological consistency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisagreeing with Peter Obi doesn&#8217;t mean hating him,\u201d he said. \u201cWe oppose the whitewashing of his political record and the cult-like defense from his supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adeyanju hinted that the online attacks may have silent approval from Obi himself, igniting fresh debate on the growing tension between political loyalty and freedom of expression in Nigeria\u2019s digital space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Activist Deji Adeyanju has slammed supporters of Peter Obi, widely known as the Obidients, over what he described as a coordinated attack on the Facebook page of fellow activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore. Adeyanju claimed the group mass-reported Sowore\u2019s page, leading to its temporary suspension-a move he called an attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66472","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\/66472","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=66472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66474,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66472\/revisions\/66474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}