{"id":196248,"date":"2025-04-17T17:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-updated-court-frees-teen-who-went-viral-for-standing-before-peter-obis-convoy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:49:41","slug":"nigeria-updated-court-frees-teen-who-went-viral-for-standing-before-peter-obis-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-updated-court-frees-teen-who-went-viral-for-standing-before-peter-obis-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Updated &#8211; Court Frees Teen Who Went Viral for Standing Before Peter Obi&#8217;s Convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">A magistrate in Apapa, Lagos State, ordered the teenager&#8217;s immediate release from the correction centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">A magistrate&#8217;s court in Apapa, Lagos, has freed 17-year-old Alabi Quadri, who went viral ahead of the 2023 general elections for standing in front of the convoy of former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The magistrate, Adetola Olorunfemi, ordered teenager Alabi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/04\/17\/court-frees-boy-who-stood-before-obis-convoy-months-after-detention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release<\/a> on Thursday, following legal advice from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Human rights&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504170550.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>A magistrate in Apapa, Lagos State, ordered the teenager&#8217;s immediate release from the correction centre. A magistrate&#8217;s court in Apapa, Lagos, has freed 17-year-old Alabi Quadri, who went viral ahead of the 2023 general elections for standing in front of the convoy of former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. The magistrate, Adetola Olorunfemi, ordered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196249,"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":[258,256,11455,6185,9978,257,4687,393,25474,6066,254,13689,15459,10007,13080],"class_list":["post-196248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-convoy","tag-court","tag-frees","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obis","tag-peter","tag-south-africa-today","tag-standing","tag-teen","tag-updated","tag-viral"],"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\/196248","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=196248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}