{"id":80901,"date":"2025-12-28T18:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80901"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:28:43","slug":"suspected-thugs-assault-obasekis-cousin-in-edo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/28\/suspected-thugs-assault-obasekis-cousin-in-edo\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Thugs Assault Obaseki\u2019s Cousin in Edo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Suspected thugs on Sunday allegedly assaulted the Chief Executive Officer of Hosamudia Farm, Don Pedro Obaseki, in Benin City, Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki, a cousin of former Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, was reportedly attacked at Uwa Primary School, where he had gone to play football.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulating on social media shows him being harassed and stripped by the attackers before he was taken to the Oba of Benin\u2019s Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the suspects led him to the palace gate and forced him to kneel, claiming they had brought an Oghion, an enemy of the Oba to the palace.<\/p>\n<p>Palace chiefs later intervened, explaining that the Oba was on his way to the Holy Arousa Cathedral for a thanksgiving service marking the end of the Igue festival. The chiefs eventually took Obaseki into the palace.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the attack and the identity of the suspects remain unclear as at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata Suspected thugs on Sunday allegedly assaulted the Chief Executive Officer of Hosamudia Farm, Don Pedro Obaseki, in Benin City, Edo State. Obaseki, a cousin of former Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, was reportedly attacked at Uwa Primary School, where he had gone to play football. A video circulating on social media shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80901","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\/80901","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=80901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80903,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80901\/revisions\/80903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}