{"id":71227,"date":"2025-07-22T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71227"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:05:57","slug":"atiku-slams-edo-governor-over-obi-threat-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/22\/atiku-slams-edo-governor-over-obi-threat-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Slams Edo Governor Over Obi Threat Remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has faulted comments made by Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo against Peter Obi, saying any \u201cthreat\u201d to the ex-Labour Party presidential candidate is a threat to the entire opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Okpebholo had warned that Obi must not enter Edo again without security clearance, linking his recent visit to a security breach that led to three deaths. The remark, made at a public event on Friday, drew backlash, with many accusing the governor of trying to intimidate opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, the governor\u2019s spokesman, Fred Itua, denied any threat, insisting Okpebholo only stressed that \u201cpolitically exposed persons\u201d must seek clearance to ensure safety of residents and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku, showing solidarity, said: \u201cLet it be known that a threat against Peter Obi or any of us is a threat against ALL of us!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has faulted comments made by Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo against Peter Obi, saying any \u201cthreat\u201d to the ex-Labour Party presidential candidate is a threat to the entire opposition. Okpebholo had warned that Obi must not enter Edo again without security clearance, linking his recent visit to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":71228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-71227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71227","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=71227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71229,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71227\/revisions\/71229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}