{"id":72558,"date":"2025-08-08T10:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72558"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:53:23","slug":"release-sowore-or-charge-him-to-court-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/08\/release-sowore-or-charge-him-to-court-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"Release Sowore or charge him to court &#8211; Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Labour Party&#8217;s Peter Obi has expressed deep concern over the detention of Omoyele Sowore by the Nigerian Police, calling for his immediate release or arraignment in court.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his X handle on Friday, Obi criticized the police for detaining a citizen who willingly responded to an invitation for questioning. According to him, the police&#8217;s actions could undermine public trust in institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Obi stated, &#8220;I was deeply disturbed to learn of the arrest of Mr Omoyele Sowore yesterday, shortly after he voluntarily honoured an invitation by the Nigerian Police Force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that the lack of clear charges being made public raises questions about the nature and motivation behind Sowore&#8217;s detention. Obi emphasized that the arrest is condemnable, especially given that Sowore presented himself in good faith to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra State Governor argued that there was no apparent urgency or risk of Sowore fleeing that would justify such treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;To detain a citizen who came of his own accord, without the public disclosure of clear, lawful charges, is not only a miscarriage of justice but an abuse of state power.&#8221; Obi urged the police to either release Sowore or charge him to court, stressing the importance of upholding justice and due process.<\/p>\n<p>I therefore call on the Nigerian Police to immediately release Omoyele Sowore or charge him formally under the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything short of this would be a further erosion of public trust in the nation\u2019s law enforcement institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our collective duty to insist that the rule of law must apply to all citizens regardless of ideology, background, or political alignment, He wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Labour Party&#8217;s Peter Obi has expressed deep concern over the detention of Omoyele Sowore by the Nigerian Police, calling for his immediate release or arraignment in court. In a post on his X handle on Friday, Obi criticized the police for detaining a citizen who willingly responded to an invitation for questioning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72558","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\/72558","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=72558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72559,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72558\/revisions\/72559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}