{"id":69002,"date":"2025-06-25T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69002"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:15:44","slug":"obi-condemns-coordinated-lawlessness-after-brothers-property-demolished-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/25\/obi-condemns-coordinated-lawlessness-after-brothers-property-demolished-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi Condemns \u2018Coordinated Lawlessness\u2019 After Brother\u2019s Property Demolished in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Labour Party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has condemned what he described as \u201ccoordinated lawlessness\u201d in Nigeria following the demolition of a property belonging to his younger brother\u2019s company in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared via his verified X handle on Tuesday, Obi revealed that the property, which had stood for over 15 years, was demolished by unidentified individuals allegedly acting on a vague and unspecified court judgment.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the judgment neither named his brother nor referenced the property in question and contained no demolition order.<\/p>\n<p>Obi warned that the incident goes beyond a family dispute, calling it a reflection of the deepening erosion of due process and rule of law in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a stark illustration of coordinated lawlessness that has profound implications for public safety and the general sense of insecurity across the country,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra State governor said the demolition highlights a growing climate of fear that discourages both local and foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p>He recounted a recent encounter with an investor who expressed reluctance to invest in Nigeria due to the country\u2019s reputation for lawlessness and instability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about me or my brother\u2014it\u2019s about the daily reality faced by ordinary Nigerians,\u201d Obi stated. \u201cIf a registered company with legitimate ownership can have its property arbitrarily destroyed, what hope is there for the average citizen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the destruction of private property without due process undermines the security and livelihoods of citizens and erodes trust in governance and justice systems.<\/p>\n<p>Obi concluded that such incidents, especially when involving individuals with some measure of public visibility; send a troubling message to the wider public and further weaken faith in the rule of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Labour Party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has condemned what he described as \u201ccoordinated lawlessness\u201d in Nigeria following the demolition of a property belonging to his younger brother\u2019s company in Lagos. In a statement shared via his verified X handle on Tuesday, Obi revealed that the property, which had stood for over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69002","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69004,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69002\/revisions\/69004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}