{"id":181555,"date":"2025-10-09T00:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181555"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:56:31","slug":"baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181555","title":{"rendered":"Baba-Ahmed Says El-Rufai\u2019s Allegations of Bandit Payment Too Serious to Dismiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, Nigeria \u2014 Datti Baba-Ahmed, the Labour Party\u2019s vice-presidential candidate in the 2023 election, has called for a serious probe into former Kaduna governor Nasir el-Rufai\u2019s allegation that the federal government is paying allowances to bandits under the guise of a \u201cnon-kinetic\u201d security approach. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Tuesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrentonline.com\/baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, Nigeria \u2014 Datti Baba-Ahmed, the Labour Party\u2019s vice-presidential candidate in the 2023 election, has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss.jpg",1600,1062,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss-768x510.jpg",640,425,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss-1024x680.jpg",640,425,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss-1536x1020.jpg",1536,1020,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss.jpg",1600,1062,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss-1024x680.jpg",1024,680,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181555-baba-ahmed-says-el-rufais-allegations-of-bandit-payment-too-serious-to-dismiss-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}