{"id":183599,"date":"2024-10-30T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-governor-sanwo-olu-never-sued-efcc-lagos-govt\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:09:08","slug":"nigeria-governor-sanwo-olu-never-sued-efcc-lagos-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-governor-sanwo-olu-never-sued-efcc-lagos-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Governor Sanwo-Olu Never Sued EFCC &#8211; Lagos Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Governor Sanwo-Olu never engaged any lawyer to file such a suit and had no reason to do so, a statement from the Lagos State Government has clarified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has denied suing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged plan to arrest and prosecute him after his tenure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Lagos State Governemnt, through the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lawal Pedro, issued the denial in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The statement clarified&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410300179.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Sanwo-Olu never engaged any lawyer to file such a suit and had no reason to do so, a statement from the Lagos State Government has clarified. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has denied suing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged plan to arrest and prosecute him after his tenure. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11129,4269,4357,2477,257,4687,393,31212,254,21449],"class_list":["post-183599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-efcc","tag-governor","tag-govt","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sanwoolu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sued"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}