{"id":83077,"date":"2026-02-26T18:29:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83077"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:29:45","slug":"umahi-denies-sending-police-after-woman-over-alleged-campaign-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/26\/umahi-denies-sending-police-after-woman-over-alleged-campaign-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Umahi Denies Sending Police After Woman Over Alleged Campaign Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Works, David Umahi, has denied deploying police officers against Mrs Tracy Ohiri over an alleged campaign debt, saying law enforcement acted on a petition filed by his lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Francis Nwaze, Umahi said the Nigeria Police Force acted within its constitutional mandate to investigate complaints.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Ohiri was arrested based on the petition and that he was also invited to make a statement in line with due process.<\/p>\n<p>The minister was reacting to a viral video shared by activist Omoyele Sowore, who confronted him over Ohiri\u2019s claims of assault and unpaid campaign materials.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi described the allegations as inconsistent and said they had circulated on social media since last year, attracting mixed reactions.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Sowore of staging a spectacle for attention and said he declined to engage in public theatrics.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy has sparked debate online, while police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Minister of Works, David Umahi, has denied deploying police officers against Mrs Tracy Ohiri over an alleged campaign debt, saying law enforcement acted on a petition filed by his lawyer. In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Francis Nwaze, Umahi said the Nigeria Police Force acted within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83077","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\/83077","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=83077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83079,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83077\/revisions\/83079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}