{"id":224130,"date":"2026-02-18T12:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-opposition-party-executive-released-after-spending-a-night-in-detention\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:21:22","slug":"west-africa-opposition-party-executive-released-after-spending-a-night-in-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-opposition-party-executive-released-after-spending-a-night-in-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Opposition Party Executive Released After Spending a Night in Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The National Secretary General of the All People&#8217;s Congress (APC), Lansana Dumbuya Esq, was <a href=\"https:\/\/fritongposts.com\/police-detain-apc-national-secretary-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detained<\/a> on February 4, 2026, by the Sierra Leonean Police after delivering a public address during a gathering of APC supporters at the Atouga Stadium in Freetown on January 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">In his speech, he <a href=\"https:\/\/truthmedia.sl\/apc-secretary-general-stands-by-remarks-calls-them-good-faith-political-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reiterated<\/a> the party&#8217;s longstanding concerns about the conduct and outcome of the 2023 general elections, particularly the failure to publish disaggregated polling-station results. Dumbuya maintained that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Secretary General of the All People&#8217;s Congress (APC), Lansana Dumbuya Esq, was detained on February 4, 2026, by the Sierra Leonean Police after delivering a public address during a gathering of APC supporters at the Atouga Stadium in Freetown on January 31, 2026. In his speech, he reiterated the party&#8217;s longstanding concerns about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224131,"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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,6978,7631,257,7589,5675,7024,6499,1135,254,9063,4375],"class_list":["post-224130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-detention","tag-executive","tag-news","tag-night","tag-opposition","tag-party","tag-released","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spending","tag-west"],"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\/224130","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=224130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}