{"id":76584,"date":"2025-10-13T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76584"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:17:56","slug":"sowore-mourns-late-activist-abiodun-aremu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/13\/sowore-mourns-late-activist-abiodun-aremu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowore Mourns Late Activist Abiodun Aremu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former presidential candidate and #RevolutionNow Convener, Omoyele Sowore, has mourned the death of veteran activist and Joint Action Front Secretary, Abiodun Aremu.<\/p>\n<p>Aremu reportedly died on Sunday evening after being knocked down by a vehicle near his residence in Ota, Ogun State. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but was later confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, Sowore described Aremu as a \u201crevolutionary senior comrade and mentor,\u201d praising his lifelong commitment to social justice and liberation struggles in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay his soul rest in power, and may his legacy continue to inspire the struggle for a freer, fairer, and just world,\u201d Sowore said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba &nbsp; Former presidential candidate and #RevolutionNow Convener, Omoyele Sowore, has mourned the death of veteran activist and Joint Action Front Secretary, Abiodun Aremu. Aremu reportedly died on Sunday evening after being knocked down by a vehicle near his residence in Ota, Ogun State. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76584","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=76584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76586,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76584\/revisions\/76586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}