{"id":185555,"date":"2025-10-26T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=185555"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:00:24","slug":"cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=185555","title":{"rendered":"Cultism financed by politicians, not\u00a0IPOB\u00a0is\u00a0biggest\u00a0security challenge in\u00a0South-East\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Odinkalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights lawyer and former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Professor Chidi Odinkalu, has said that the major security challenge confronting the South-East region is cultism financed by politicians, not the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), as widely believed. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018Politics Today\u2019 on Thursday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newswirengr.com\/2025\/10\/24\/cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights lawyer and former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Professor Chidi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185555","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\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu.jpg",721,539,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu-300x224.jpg",300,224,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu.jpg",640,478,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu.jpg",640,478,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu.jpg",721,539,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu.jpg",721,539,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu.jpg",721,539,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu.jpg",721,539,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185555-cultism-financed-by-politicians-not-ipob-is-biggest-security-challenge-in-south-east-odinkalu-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\/185555","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=185555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/185556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}