{"id":193544,"date":"2025-03-14T15:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-akpabio-akpoti-uduaghan-fight-distracts-from-nigerians-suffering-deji-adeyanju\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:44:28","slug":"nigeria-akpabio-akpoti-uduaghan-fight-distracts-from-nigerians-suffering-deji-adeyanju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-akpabio-akpoti-uduaghan-fight-distracts-from-nigerians-suffering-deji-adeyanju\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Akpabio, Akpoti-Uduaghan Fight Distracts From Nigerians&#8217; Suffering &#8211; Deji Adeyanju"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Abuja \u2014 Human rights lawyer and activist, Comrade Deji Adeyanju, has condemned the ongoing political feud between Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, labelling it a distraction from the pressing economic hardships faced by ordinary Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Adeyanju made these remarks during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, where he criticised the Senate for prioritising personal disputes over urgent national issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">He highlighted the silence of key senators, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140431.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>Abuja \u2014 Human rights lawyer and activist, Comrade Deji Adeyanju, has condemned the ongoing political feud between Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, labelling it a distraction from the pressing economic hardships faced by ordinary Nigerians. Adeyanju made these remarks during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, where he criticised the Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[49650,258,256,23255,50862,50864,50863,4345,257,4687,393,6665,254,6566],"class_list":["post-193544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adeyanju","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akpabio","tag-akpotiuduaghan","tag-deji","tag-distracts","tag-fight","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suffering"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193544","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=193544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}