{"id":68495,"date":"2024-01-29T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68495"},"modified":"2024-01-29T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:42:10","slug":"kidnapped-lagos-pdp-chairman-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68495","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped Lagos PDP Chairman released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The Lagos State Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Philip Aivoji, has been released by kidnappers who kept for four days.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68496\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68496\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot_20240126-193235-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot_20240126-193235-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot_20240126-193235.jpg 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Philip Aivoji, Lagos PDP Chairman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Party spokesman, Alhaji Hakeem Amode, confirmed his release in a message on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cWe use this opportunity to appreciate your prayers; and to thank you all for your concerns and prayers,\u201d Amode said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Aivoji was kidnapped on Thursday at Ogere area of Ogun on Ibadan-Lagos expressway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The party chairman was returning from the PDP South-West zonal meeting in Ibadan, Oyo State on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The abductors had earlier contacted his family, demanding for a N200m-ransom but Amode would not confirm whether or not there was any payment before his release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The party thanked security agencies and government authorities that facilitated his freedom.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_240129_112923_056.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Philip Aivoji, has been released by kidnappers who kept for four days. Party spokesman, Alhaji Hakeem Amode, confirmed his release in a message on Monday. \u201cWe use this opportunity to appreciate your prayers; and to thank you all for your concerns and prayers,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5807,7,8],"tags":[6489,1965,372],"class_list":["post-68495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime-and-violence","category-news","category-politics","tag-aivoji","tag-chairman","tag-released"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68495","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=68495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}