{"id":179008,"date":"2025-09-16T08:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:39:17","slug":"police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue","title":{"rendered":"Police Supervised APC Rally at My Paid Venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The 2023 Labour Party\u2019s governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has accused the Nigeria police of supervising and protecting the All Progressives Congress, APC, to do a rally at a venue he paid for.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes-Vivour made this allegation on Monday, when he appeared as a guest on the \u2018Prime Time\u2019, a programme on Arise Television.<\/p>\n<p>He demanded the commissioner of police to explain why that happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would be a fantastic question to ask the Commissioner of Police because I have talked about this. We got approval from the police, got the letter, made payments, and they occupied the venue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government needs to start to explain these things because our job is to notify them and their job is to protect the citizens, not to determine who can do what, when and how. That goes against our constitution and the democratic process we are practicing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police need to explain how they shepherd thugs to come into a church and completely destroy the assembly of people there and be so violent and watch what literally happened,\u201d he said.<\/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. The 2023 Labour Party\u2019s governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has accused the Nigeria police of supervising and protecting the All Progressives Congress, APC, to do a rally at a venue he paid for. Rhodes-Vivour made this allegation on Monday, when he appeared as a guest on the \u2018Prime Time\u2019, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,254,165,9943],"class_list":["post-179008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-police","tag-rhodes-vivour"],"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>Police Supervised APC Rally at My Paid Venue - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 2023 Labour Party\u2019s governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has accused the Nigeria police of ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police Supervised APC Rally at My Paid Venue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2023 Labour Party\u2019s governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has accused the Nigeria police of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-16T07:35:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-16T08:39:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757999545.08622.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police Supervised APC Rally at My Paid Venue\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-16T07:35:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-16T08:39:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue\"},\"wordCount\":200,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757999545.08622.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\",\"Rhodes-Vivour\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/police-supervised-apc-rally-at-my-paid-venue\",\"name\":\"Police Supervised APC Rally at My Paid Venue - 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