{"id":77966,"date":"2025-11-03T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77966"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:46:05","slug":"apc-chieftain-urges-u-s-to-freeze-terror-sponsors-assets-not-threaten-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/03\/apc-chieftain-urges-u-s-to-freeze-terror-sponsors-assets-not-threaten-war\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Chieftain Urges U.S. to Freeze Terror Sponsors\u2019 Assets, Not Threaten War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All Progressives Congress (APC), chieftain Tolu Bankole has urged the United States to freeze the assets of terror financiers and corrupt Nigerians abroad instead of threatening military action against Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s recent comments about possible intervention over alleged Christian persecution, Bankole said such threats were \u201cmisplaced and dangerous,\u201d warning that Nigeria needs peace, not war.<\/p>\n<p>He called on Washington to target those funding terrorism and laundering looted funds overseas, insisting that \u201callowing them to live comfortably abroad while plotting to destabilize Nigeria is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bankole urged the U.S. to support President Bola Tinubu\u2019s reforms through partnerships in technology, infrastructure, agriculture, and intelligence sharing, saying, \u201cNigeria needs collaboration, not condemnation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also appealed for national unity, cautioning that any conflict, internal or external, would only deepen hardship and division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; All Progressives Congress (APC), chieftain Tolu Bankole has urged the United States to freeze the assets of terror financiers and corrupt Nigerians abroad instead of threatening military action against Nigeria. Reacting to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s recent comments about possible intervention over alleged Christian persecution, Bankole said such threats were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77966","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\/77966","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=77966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77968,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77966\/revisions\/77968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}