{"id":80402,"date":"2025-12-17T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80402"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:40:10","slug":"adc-chieftain-if-yahaya-bello-is-free-malami-should-be-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/17\/adc-chieftain-if-yahaya-bello-is-free-malami-should-be-too\/","title":{"rendered":"ADC Chieftain: If Yahaya Bello Is Free, Malami Should Be Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A chieftain of the All Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Ladan Salihu, has criticised the Federal Government\u2019s handling of high-profile corruption cases, arguing that if former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello is free, then former Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami should not remain in detention.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on national television on Tuesday, Salihu accused the government of selective justice, alleging that anti-graft agencies are being used against political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>He said Bello\u2019s continued freedom despite ongoing allegations highlights inconsistencies in the enforcement of anti-corruption laws.<\/p>\n<p>Salihu\u2019s comments followed the detention of Malami by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged graft-related matters.<\/p>\n<p>He described it as unfair for Malami to be held while others facing similar or more serious allegations remain at large.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that such actions undermine public confidence in the anti-corruption campaign and the credibility of Nigeria\u2019s justice system.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC and the Federal Government were yet to respond to the claims at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat A chieftain of the All Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Ladan Salihu, has criticised the Federal Government\u2019s handling of high-profile corruption cases, arguing that if former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello is free, then former Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami should not remain in detention. Speaking on national television on Tuesday, Salihu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80402","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\/80402","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=80402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80404,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80402\/revisions\/80404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}