{"id":291685,"date":"2026-04-11T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=291685"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:37:20","slug":"ben-kalu-the-lpdc-verdict-and-the-politics-of-manufactured-scandals-by-chetachi-ikenga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=291685","title":{"rendered":"Ben Kalu, the LPDC verdict, and the politics of manufactured scandals, By Chetachi Ikenga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Kalu\u2019s real test will not be in responding to detractors. It will be in continuing the work that brought him to national prominence in the first place: strengthening Nigeria\u2019s legislature and contributing to the difficult task of building a more inclusive democracy. In Nigerian politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/opinion\/863511-ben-kalu-the-lpdc-verdict-and-the-politics-of-manufactured-scandals-by-chetachi-ikenga.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Kalu\u2019s real test will not be in responding to detractors. It will be in continuing the work that brought him to national prominence in the first place: strengthening Nigeria\u2019s legislature and contributing to the difficult task of building a more inclusive democracy. In Nigerian politics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291685"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=291685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}