{"id":110956,"date":"2019-04-26T08:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T07:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110956"},"modified":"2019-04-26T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:31:32","slug":"tinubu-reveals-reason-behind-his-absence-when-buhari-visited-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110956","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu reveals reason behind his absence when Buhari visited Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday cleared the air on his absence during President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s visit to Lagos State.<\/p>\n

Buhari had on Wednesday commissioned projects in Lagos. However, Tinubu was conspicuously absent, a development, which raised eyebrows among Nigerians.<\/p>\n

There were insinuations that Tinubu shunned the event as a payback for the President\u2019s absence at the colloquium organised last month to mark his 67th birthday.<\/p>\n

But, Tunde Rahman, Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Media on Thursday said the APC leader did not deliberately stay away from Lagos during Buhari\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n

He told Daily Independent, \u201cTinubu missed the event because he is currently out of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsiwaju Bola Tinubu is not in town. He is currently out of the country. That was why he was not present at the occasion, not otherwise.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday cleared the air on his absence during President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s visit to Lagos State. Buhari had on Wednesday commissioned projects in Lagos. However, Tinubu was conspicuously absent, a development, which raised eyebrows among Nigerians. There were insinuations that Tinubu shunned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,7459,41,4151],"class_list":["post-110956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-akinwumi-ambode","tag-buhari","tag-tinubu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}