{"id":191885,"date":"2025-02-20T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-osun-lg-crisis-adeleke-meets-british-diplomats-accuses-igp-of-colluding-with-apc\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:58:42","slug":"nigeria-osun-lg-crisis-adeleke-meets-british-diplomats-accuses-igp-of-colluding-with-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-osun-lg-crisis-adeleke-meets-british-diplomats-accuses-igp-of-colluding-with-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Osun LG Crisis &#8211; Adeleke Meets British Diplomats, Accuses IGP of Colluding With APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Gov Adeleke says Osun State is facing a combined assault of security forces who, rather than protecting the rule of law, are aiding violations of the democratic process<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Osun State governor Ademola Adeleke on Wednesday accused the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, of allegedly colluding with the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apc.com.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Progressives Congress<\/a><\/strong> (APC) to enforce non-existent court order reinstating local government chairpersons and councillors sacked by a Federal High Court judgment in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502200352.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>Gov Adeleke says Osun State is facing a combined assault of security forces who, rather than protecting the rule of law, are aiding violations of the democratic process Osun State governor Ademola Adeleke on Wednesday accused the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, of allegedly colluding with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to enforce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191886,"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":[5070,24020,258,256,11297,409,50671,3723,10110,7412,6271,257,4687,393,8991,254],"class_list":["post-191885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-accuses","tag-adeleke","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-british","tag-colluding","tag-crisis","tag-diplomats","tag-igp","tag-meets","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-osun","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/191885","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=191885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}