{"id":72225,"date":"2025-08-06T06:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72225"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:07:15","slug":"petition-probe-sowore-to-meet-police-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/petition-probe-sowore-to-meet-police-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition Probe: Sowore to Meet Police Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC), presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, has confirmed he will appear before the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Monitoring Unit in Abuja on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, Sowore said the police had refused to provide him with a copy of the petition or disclose the identity of the petitioner, despite a formal request from his legal team, Tope Temokun Chambers.<\/p>\n<p>The IGP Monitoring Unit responded by insisting he appear in person before any information could be shared.<\/p>\n<p>A letter signed by Deputy Commissioner of Police Akin Fakorede and dated August 5, 2025, scheduled the interview for 11:30 a.m. at the unit\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore raised concerns about the lack of transparency, questioning the motive behind the summons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IGP Monitoring Unit has scheduled my interview for tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., yet they have refused to provide a copy of the purported petition against me,\u201d he said. \u201cDespite this, I will honour the invitation, but not alone. Every freedom fighter, every citizen of conscience, every voice of resistance should assemble tomorrow at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in Abuja.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, the petition will be presented to Sowore during the meeting, in line with standard investigative procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC), presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, has confirmed he will appear before the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Monitoring Unit in Abuja on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. In a statement on Tuesday, Sowore said the police had refused to provide him with a copy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72225","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=72225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72227,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72225\/revisions\/72227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}