{"id":80996,"date":"2025-12-31T09:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80996"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:31:23","slug":"obaseki-family-backs-pedros-legal-action-over-alleged-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/31\/obaseki-family-backs-pedros-legal-action-over-alleged-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Obaseki Family Backs Pedro\u2019s Legal Action Over Alleged Humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Obaseki family of Benin, Edo State, has declared support for Dr Pedro Obaseki to seek legal redress over his alleged assault and public humiliation in Benin City.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Obaseki, a former Managing Director of DAAR Communications, was reportedly attacked by a mob on Sunday at the Uwa Primary School football field over claims of disrespect to the Oba of Benin.<\/p>\n<p>A viral video showed him being stripped, intimidated and escorted to the palace, where he was received by chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists in Benin City, the Okaegbe of the Obaseki Family Worldwide, Pa Daniel Obaseki, condemned the incident as \u201cbarbaric\u201d and a gross violation of human rights, insisting there was no justification for the alleged violence.<\/p>\n<p>He said the family delayed speaking publicly to understand the circumstances and urged a thorough and impartial investigation, calling for those responsible to be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Pa Obaseki reaffirmed the family\u2019s respect for the Oba of Benin\u2019s palace as a unifying institution but warned against actions by non-palace functionaries that could undermine its dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Obaseki family of Benin, Edo State, has declared support for Dr Pedro Obaseki to seek legal redress over his alleged assault and public humiliation in Benin City. Dr Obaseki, a former Managing Director of DAAR Communications, was reportedly attacked by a mob on Sunday at the Uwa Primary School football field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80996","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\/80996","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=80996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80998,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80996\/revisions\/80998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}