{"id":200422,"date":"2025-06-18T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-benue-massacre-tinubus-visit-to-crime-scene-refreshing-peter-obi\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T20:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:02:02","slug":"nigeria-benue-massacre-tinubus-visit-to-crime-scene-refreshing-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-benue-massacre-tinubus-visit-to-crime-scene-refreshing-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Benue Massacre \/ Tinubu&#8217;s Visit to Crime Scene Refreshing &#8211; Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8230;urges President to extend gesture to Mokwa victims<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has described as &#8220;refreshing&#8221; President Bola Ahmed Tinubu&#8217;s decision to visit the site of the recent massacre in Benue State, where over 200 people were killed by suspected armed herdsmen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Obi expressed his views in a post on his official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Tuesday, stating that the visit, though overdue, was a welcome development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506180688.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>&#8230;urges President to extend gesture to Mokwa victims The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has described as &#8220;refreshing&#8221; President Bola Ahmed Tinubu&#8217;s decision to visit the site of the recent massacre in Benue State, where over 200 people were killed by suspected armed herdsmen. Obi expressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200423,"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":[258,256,8937,5357,2075,257,4687,393,22463,6066,51664,13190,254,34574,6250],"class_list":["post-200422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benue","tag-crime","tag-massacre","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obi","tag-peter","tag-refreshing","tag-scene","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubus","tag-visit"],"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\/200422","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=200422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}