{"id":214622,"date":"2026-03-18T03:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214622"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:14:35","slug":"sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214622","title":{"rendered":"Sowore Can\u2019t Use My Retracted Statement\u00a0 Against Tinubu as Defence \u2013Omokri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Reno Omokri, Nigeria\u2019s ambassador-designate, has said activist and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, cannot rely on his past statements about President Bola Tinubu as a defence in his ongoing cybercrime trial. Sowore is currently facing a two-count charge filed by the Department of State Services (DSS&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanexaminer.com\/sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Reno Omokri, Nigeria\u2019s ambassador-designate, has said activist and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri.jpg",630,365,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri-300x174.jpg",300,174,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri.jpg",630,365,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri.jpg",630,365,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri.jpg",630,365,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri.jpg",630,365,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri.jpg",630,365,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri.jpg",630,365,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214622-sowore-cant-use-my-retracted-statement-against-tinubu-as-defence-omokri-590x365.jpg",590,365,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214622","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=214622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}