{"id":140670,"date":"2019-08-03T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140670"},"modified":"2019-08-03T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T15:46:55","slug":"breaking-atiku-condemns-sowores-arrest-in-cryptic-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140670","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Atiku Condemns Sowore&#8217;s Arrest In Cryptic Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2019-Atiku-Reveals-Why-He-Regrets-Joining-APC.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-temp-aztec-id=\"788a663c-c60d-440c-9298-d9c36569306a\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Atiku Abubakar, former Nigerian vice-president has condemned what he described as &#8220;kidnappings in the guise of arrests&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a cryptic post suspected to be linked to the early morning arrest and detention of human rights activist Omoyele Sowore, the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party said, &#8220;Freedom of speech is not only constitutionally guaranteed, it is the substructure of our democracy. These kidnappings in the guise of arrests stand condemned.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"block-story-object block-story-object-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-width=\"550\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Freedom of speech is not only constitutionally guaranteed, it is the substructure of our democracy. These kidnappings in the guise of arrests stands condemned. -AA<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atiku\/status\/1157589124150452225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sowore&#8217;s arrest is in connection to a widely publicized #RevolutionNow Protest to challenge misgovernance in Nigeria.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col block-story-object block-story-object-link block-story-object-link-story\" about=\"\/2019\/08\/02\/breaking-dss-arrests-sowore\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-content-body\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"node node-story node-promoted node-sticky taxonomy-breaking-news view-mode-embedded_link block-module block-module-small block-module-story\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-module-image block-module-image-scale-to-fit\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><span class=\"image-background-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FreeSowore-Nigerians-Blast-Buhari-Condemn-Sowores-Arrest.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atiku Abubakar, former Nigerian vice-president has condemned what he described as &#8220;kidnappings in the guise of arrests&#8221;. In a cryptic post suspected to be linked to the early morning arrest and detention of human rights activist Omoyele Sowore, the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party said, &#8220;Freedom of speech is not only constitutionally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4148,10526,58],"class_list":["post-140670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-atiku","tag-omoyele-sowore","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}