{"id":60267,"date":"2022-10-19T21:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T21:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60267"},"modified":"2022-10-19T21:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T21:37:52","slug":"ilorin-court-grants-bail-to-akogun-brothers-accused-of-insulting-kwara-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60267","title":{"rendered":"Ilorin Court Grants Bail to Akogun Brothers accused of Insulting Kwara Gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ilorin Magistrate Court has granted bail to Dare Akogun of Sobi Fm and Abdulrasheed Akogun of Fresh Insight, two Kwara State-born journalists, accused of defaming the administration of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, <a href=\"https:\/\/prnigeria.com\/\">PRNigeria<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists, who are brothers, were\u00a0remanded\u00a0at the Oke-Kura correctional facility last week following a petition by Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prnigeria.com\/\">PRNigeria<\/a>\u00a0gathered that the Akogun brothers, on a popular WhatsApp group (Kwara Commission) had alleged that the AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq-led Kwara state government is the most corrupt government they have ever known.<\/p>\n<p>They posited that some persons in the government, including the CPS Ajakaye, and other persons close to the government, facilitated the release of N15 million to influence the election of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in favor of the government\u2019s preferred candidate, during the June 2021 Kwara NUJ election.<\/p>\n<p>However, based on Abdulrasheed and Dare\u2019s comment on the particular WhatsApp group,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prnigeria.com\/\">PRNigeria<\/a>\u00a0learnt that the Governor\u2019s CPS, Mr. Ajakaye, immediately submitted a petition to Kwara Police Command to investigate an alleged defamation by the Akogun brothers.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source, the Police invited the Dare and Abdulrasheed for fact-finding on October 13, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Said the source, who pleaded for anonymity: \u201cAkogun brothers as responsible citizens honoured Police invitation. The duo confirmed raising the allegations and promise to substantiate their claims before the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice Commissioner in Kwara State, CP Paul Odama advised Dare Akogun and Abdulrasheed Akogun to write apology letter the Chief Press Secretary which they refused and requested to have their days in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice detained them on Thursday but told ASKOMP and their friends on Friday morning that the duo were no longer in their custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the duo were declared missing by the protesters and Police custody as their last whereabouts. Police later admitted arresting the Akogun brothers and promise to arraign them within 24 hours<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice arraigned them on Friday before Ilorin Magistrate Court. The magistrate court remanded them in prison to October 19, 2022 where they were granted the bail.<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>PRNigeria<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ilorin Magistrate Court has granted bail to Dare Akogun of Sobi Fm and Abdulrasheed Akogun of Fresh Insight, two Kwara State-born journalists, accused of defaming the administration of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, PRNigeria\u00a0reports. The journalists, who are brothers, were\u00a0remanded\u00a0at the Oke-Kura correctional facility last week following a petition by Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary (CPS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5187,520,69],"class_list":["post-60267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-akogun","tag-bail","tag-kwara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}