{"id":221966,"date":"2026-04-24T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221966"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:48:15","slug":"amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221966","title":{"rendered":"Amupitan and the Ruse of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this searing critique, Chidi Anselm Odinkalu dissects what he describes as the \u201cruse of law\u201d \u2014 a recurring pattern where judicial processes are weaponised to destabilise opposition politics in Nigeria. Focusing on the unfolding crisis within the African Democratic Congress (ADC), he argues that a mix of legal technicalities&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundiatapost.com\/amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this searing critique, Chidi Anselm Odinkalu dissects what he describes as the \u201cruse of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law.jpeg",240,313,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law-230x300.jpeg",230,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law.jpeg",240,313,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law.jpeg",240,313,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law.jpeg",240,313,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law.jpeg",240,313,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law.jpeg",240,313,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law.jpeg",240,313,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221966-amupitan-and-the-ruse-of-law.jpeg",240,313,false]},"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\/221966","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=221966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}