{"id":80589,"date":"2025-12-20T04:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80589"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:47:50","slug":"police-withdrawal-akpabio-urges-tinubu-to-review-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/20\/police-withdrawal-akpabio-urges-tinubu-to-review-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Withdrawal: Akpabio Urges Tinubu to Review Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to reconsider the directive withdrawing police orderlies from members of the National Assembly, citing security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio made the plea on Friday during the presentation of the 2026 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>He said some lawmakers had expressed fears that they might be unable to return home safely following the withdrawal of their police escorts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we direct the security agencies to withdraw policemen from critical areas, some members of the National Assembly have asked me to inform you that they may not be able to go home today,\u201d Akpabio said, appealing for a review of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that President Tinubu, on November 23, ordered the withdrawal of police officers attached to Very Important Persons (VIPs) for redeployment to core policing duties nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Senate President Godswill Akpabio has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to reconsider the directive withdrawing police orderlies from members of the National Assembly, citing security concerns. Akpabio made the plea on Friday during the presentation of the 2026 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly. He said some lawmakers had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80589","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\/80589","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=80589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80591,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80589\/revisions\/80591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}