{"id":13034,"date":"2023-04-01T20:47:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13034"},"modified":"2023-04-01T20:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:47:16","slug":"apc-plans-lp-counter-protest-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13034","title":{"rendered":"APC Plans LP Counter Protest In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The United States Chapter of the All Progressives Congress says it has scheduled a solidarity march in Washington DC in support of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement signed by Tai Balofin, its chairman, the group said the march will take place on April 3 at the Lafayette Park \u2013 Southwest Quadrant \u2013 opposite the White House, to counter a protest by supporters of the Labour Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This comes after the report that some Nigerians resident in the US had reportedly gotten a permit to protest against the election victory of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, on April 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, Balofin, said a group of Nigerians loyal to Peter Obi, the LP presidential candidate staged a demonstration opposite the White House on March 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said the US government was not involved or in support of the protest, as anybody can get approval for a peaceful protest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He urged Nigerians not to be worried by the actions of the protesters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe also wish to state that this protest was sponsored by Peter Obi, who lost the election in Nigeria,\u201d the statement reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe believe that the Nigerian presidential election was free and fair, and Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu won the election. The majority of Nigerian voters gave him their mandate, and no propaganda, manipulation or tissue of lies can stop his inauguration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe have mobilized true Nigerians to come out in support of their mandate, and we believe that the protesters will not succeed in their mission to disrupt the peace and stability of Nigeria\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Chapter of the All Progressives Congress says it has scheduled a solidarity march in Washington D C in support of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6721,6776,5097,377],"class_list":["post-13034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc-usa","tag-counter-protest","tag-lp","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13035,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions\/13035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}