{"id":72499,"date":"2025-08-07T12:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72499"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:33:55","slug":"sowore-spends-second-night-in-police-custody-over-forgery-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/07\/sowore-spends-second-night-in-police-custody-over-forgery-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowore Spends Second Night in Police Custody Over Forgery Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, remains in police custody for a second day after being detained at the Nigeria Police Force headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore was invited by the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit over a petition alleging forgery and inciting disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>He honoured the invitation, arriving with his legal team and supporters, but was detained following an interview session.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, initially slated for Monday, was rescheduled after Sowore requested a copy of the petition.<\/p>\n<p>His detention comes amid heightened tensions between him and the police, following his criticisms of Inspector-General Kayode Egbetokun\u2019s tenure extension and concerns about the poor welfare of retired officers.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters and civil society groups have condemned the arrest, describing the charges as politically motivated and an attempt to suppress dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The development is drawing increased public attention as concerns mount over freedom of expression in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, remains in police custody for a second day after being detained at the Nigeria Police Force headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. Sowore was invited by the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit over a petition alleging forgery and inciting disturbance. He honoured the invitation, arriving with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72499","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\/72499","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=72499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72501,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72499\/revisions\/72501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}