{"id":821,"date":"2018-06-04T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2018-06-04T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:57:00","slug":"police-cancel-summon-to-saraki-demand-written-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Police cancel summon to Saraki; demand written explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Bukola Saraki would no longer need to appear before the police for questioning, the top lawmaker said on Monday.on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Twitter, Mr Saraki said he now has a formal communication from the police, but it was not for him to appear but rather to answer questions bordering on the robbery in Offa, Kwara State, in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing my earlier tweet, I have received the letter from @PoliceNG. They are no longer asking me to appear at any station, but to respond in writing to the allegations within 48 hours \u2014 which I plan to do,\u201d Mr Saraki said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes minutes after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo met behind closed-doors with Mr Saraki and police chief, Ibrahim Idris, as well as the head of State Security Service, Lawal Daura, at the State House. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Bukola Saraki would no longer need to appear before the police for questioning, the top lawmaker said on Monday.on Monday. In a post on Twitter, Mr Saraki said &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}