{"id":77990,"date":"2025-11-04T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77990"},"modified":"2025-11-04T05:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:55:52","slug":"sowore-faults-lagos-police-over-wanted-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/sowore-faults-lagos-police-over-wanted-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowore Faults Lagos Police Over \u2018Wanted\u2019 Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human rights activist and 2023 presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has faulted the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Olohundare Jimoh, over reports declaring him wanted for alleged disturbance of public peace.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting in a post on his social media handle, Sowore described the action as an attempt to silence him and distort facts surrounding the recent disruption of a planned gathering in the Oworonsoki area of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the Police Commissioner ignored his calls despite several attempts to reach him, adding that he intends to meet with the CP to address the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, CP Jimoh had told journalists that the command declared Sowore wanted for allegedly planning to incite public disorder and block major roads, including the Third Mainland Bridge, Lekki Tollgate, and Freedom Park.<\/p>\n<p>He said intelligence reports linked Sowore and others to planned demonstrations, warning that anyone found causing disturbances would face prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>The Police, he added, have deployed officers across key areas of Lagos to maintain law and order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Human rights activist and 2023 presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has faulted the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Olohundare Jimoh, over reports declaring him wanted for alleged disturbance of public peace. Reacting in a post on his social media handle, Sowore described the action as an attempt to silence him and distort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77990","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\/77990","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77991,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77990\/revisions\/77991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}