{"id":77395,"date":"2025-10-24T14:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77395"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:06:46","slug":"ill-testify-in-nnamdi-kanus-trial-if-subpoenaed-says-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/24\/ill-testify-in-nnamdi-kanus-trial-if-subpoenaed-says-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll Testify in Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s Trial if Subpoenaed, Says Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola<\/p>\n<p>FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has said he is willing to testify in the trial of detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, if officially summoned by the court.<\/p>\n<p>Wike stated this during his monthly media chat on Friday, reacting to reports that Kanu listed him among 23 witnesses for his defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not go to him to say I want to be a witness. Nobody has served me any process,\u201d Wike said. \u201cBut if I am subpoenaed, I must obey the court and appear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kanu had, in a motion filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, named Wike, Gen. T.Y. Danjuma (retd.), and Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.) among witnesses he plans to call when his defence begins on October 24, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has said he is willing to testify in the trial of detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, if officially summoned by the court. Wike stated this during his monthly media chat on Friday, reacting to reports that Kanu listed him among 23 witnesses for his defence. \u201cI did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":77396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77395","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77397,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77395\/revisions\/77397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}