{"id":80272,"date":"2025-12-15T08:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80272"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:08:20","slug":"kebbi-adc-demands-malamis-release-accuses-efcc-of-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/15\/kebbi-adc-demands-malamis-release-accuses-efcc-of-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Kebbi ADC Demands Malami\u2019s Release, Accuses EFCC of Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kebbi State chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has called for the release of former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), accusing the EFCC of bias and political motivation in his ongoing detention.<\/p>\n<p>The party alleged that the anti-graft agency has applied double standards, targeting opposition figures while being lenient toward those aligned with the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>It said Malami, who has cooperated with investigators, has not been convicted and should either be charged or granted bail without restrictive conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The ADC warned that selective enforcement by the EFCC risks eroding public trust in anti-corruption efforts and undermining Nigeria\u2019s democratic institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Kebbi State chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has called for the release of former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), accusing the EFCC of bias and political motivation in his ongoing detention. The party alleged that the anti-graft agency has applied double standards, targeting opposition figures while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80272","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=80272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80274,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80272\/revisions\/80274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}