{"id":71796,"date":"2025-07-31T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71796"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:42:33","slug":"south-east-politicians-fund-gunmen-to-win-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/31\/south-east-politicians-fund-gunmen-to-win-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"South-East Politicians Fund Gunmen to Win\u00a0Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Igbokwe, former Special Adviser on Drainage and Water Resources to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has accused politicians in the South-East of deliberately fueling the region\u2019s ongoing security crisis for their own political advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Igbokwe, a prominent member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), expressed strong concern over the rising violence in the area, alleging that some political figures are behind the activities of armed groups terrorizing the region.<\/p>\n<p>According to Igbokwe, these politicians are financing the gunmen to intimidate opponents and manipulate election outcomes. He further claimed that in some cases, the armed men are used as personal security or to enforce private disputes and land grabs.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, Igbokwe stated:<br \/>\n\u201cSince 2015, politicians in the South-East have been using these gunmen to win elections. They use them to fight their opponents, to settle family disputes, to seize land, and even as personal security. They pay them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The security situation in the South-East has deteriorated significantly, with near-daily reports of killings and kidnappings across\u00a0the\u00a0region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Joe Igbokwe, former Special Adviser on Drainage and Water Resources to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has accused politicians in the South-East of deliberately fueling the region\u2019s ongoing security crisis for their own political advantage. Igbokwe, a prominent member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), expressed strong concern over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71796","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\/71796","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71798,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71796\/revisions\/71798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}