{"id":79945,"date":"2025-12-10T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79945"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:06:14","slug":"aac-faults-tinubu-over-military-intervention-in-benin-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/aac-faults-tinubu-over-military-intervention-in-benin-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"AAC faults Tinubu over military intervention in Benin Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The African Action Congress (AAC) has criticised the Bola Tinubu administration for deploying military force to the Republic of Benin following a failed coup attempt, describing the move as misplaced and hypocritical.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the party condemned the reported airstrikes and troop deployment, calling it a \u201cselective use of power\u201d that prioritises foreign intervention while Nigeria continues to grapple with widespread insecurity, kidnapping, and violence at home.<\/p>\n<p>The AAC argued that the government\u2019s swift \u201cmilitary precision\u201d abroad contrasts sharply with its slow and inconsistent response to domestic security challenges, raising questions about the administration\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The party urged the federal government to explain the rationale for the Benin intervention and to refocus attention on Nigeria\u2019s escalating internal security crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The African Action Congress (AAC) has criticised the Bola Tinubu administration for deploying military force to the Republic of Benin following a failed coup attempt, describing the move as misplaced and hypocritical. In a statement, the party condemned the reported airstrikes and troop deployment, calling it a \u201cselective use of power\u201d that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79945","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\/79945","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=79945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79946,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79945\/revisions\/79946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}