{"id":170595,"date":"2025-07-21T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:30:49","slug":"aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks","title":{"rendered":"Aisha Yesufu Slams Okpebolo Over Audacity Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A social critic and advocate of good governance, Aisha Yesufu, has attacked Edo State Governor Monday Okpebolo over his warning to Mr Peter Obi not to visit the state without his permission.<\/p>\n<p>Aisha questioned what gave Okpebholo the audacity to say he can actually give security clearance for any Nigerian to be able to visit Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>She stated this while fielding questions on Channels Television\u2019s Breakfast Show programme on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the governor had issued a stern warning to Obi to risk visiting the Edo without his approval.<\/p>\n<p>Okpebholo outrightly declared that Obi\u2019s security may not be guaranteed if he comes into the state next time without approval.<\/p>\n<p>However, Aisha said Edo State is not the governor\u2019s family estate.<\/p>\n<p>Aisha said: \u201cHe said it very clearly, and he said it very loud. He said your security will not be guaranteed if you come in anything that happens to you, you know it\u2019s on you so and that\u2019s a threat to his life. Beyond that also is the fact that the Edo state government also came out with a statement where they said that he wasn\u2019t threatening him, but he needs to tell him when he\u2019s coming and also get security clearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what gave governor the audacity that he can actually give security clearance for any Nigerian to be able to come to Edo state. Edo state is not his family estate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe currently might be the one who, who is governing the state, but he doesn\u2019t have the right to give anybody clearance for them to be anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A social critic and advocate of good governance, Aisha Yesufu, has attacked Edo State Governor Monday Okpebolo over his warning to Mr Peter Obi not to visit the state without his permission. Aisha questioned what gave Okpebholo the audacity to say he can actually give security clearance for any Nigerian to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[2779,254,18072,222],"class_list":["post-170595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-aisha-yesufu","tag-nigeria","tag-okpebolo","tag-peter-obi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aisha Yesufu Slams Okpebolo Over Audacity Remarks - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A social critic and advocate of good governance, Aisha Yesufu, has attacked Edo State Governor Monday Okpebolo over his ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aisha Yesufu Slams Okpebolo Over Audacity Remarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A social critic and advocate of good governance, Aisha Yesufu, has attacked Edo State Governor Monday Okpebolo over his ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T13:23:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T14:30:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753095594.933097.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1224\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1025\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Aisha Yesufu Slams Okpebolo Over Audacity Remarks\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-21T13:23:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-21T14:30:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks\"},\"wordCount\":293,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753095594.933097.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Aisha Yesufu\",\"Nigeria\",\"Okpebolo\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-slams-okpebolo-over-audacity-remarks\",\"name\":\"Aisha Yesufu Slams Okpebolo Over Audacity Remarks - 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