{"id":126274,"date":"2019-06-13T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T10:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=126274"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T10:23:15","slug":"june-12-presidency-shehu-sani-clash-over-renaming-of-stadium-built-by-obasanjo-after-mko-abiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=126274","title":{"rendered":"June 12: Presidency, Shehu Sani clash over renaming of stadium built by Obasanjo after MKO Abiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kaduna-Election-INEC-reacts-to-Shehu-Sanis-accusation-of-foul-play-at-tribunal.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Digital\/New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi has taken a swipe at the former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central district at the National Assembly, Shehu Sani.<\/p>\n<p>Sani had said that erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo should be appreciated after the Abuja National Stadium he built was renamed after MKO Abiola.<\/p>\n<p>He further called on the President Muhammadu Buhari government to also complete its own project and not depend on the ones completed by others.<\/p>\n<p>He had tweeted, \u201cIt\u2019s important to appreciate ex-President Obasanjo for constructing a stadium in Abuja befitting of being renamed to immortalize a democratic hero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will also advise this administration to henceforth use its own completed project for \u2018any more immortalization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to this Ogunlesi, Ogunlesi mocked the former lawmaker by saying that Buhari will rename the new Lagos-Ibadan Standard Guage Rail Line after Sani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry Sir, we will make sure the new Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge Rail Line is renamed \u2018Shehu Sani Line\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recognition of your illustrious and indefatigable contributions to Kaduna State during the 8th Senate,\u201d Ogunlesi tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Firing back, Sani said, \u201cIt\u2019s your home Mr. Tolu, you deserve it better for your social media contributions.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Digital\/New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi has taken a swipe at the former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central district at the National Assembly, Shehu Sani. Sani had said that erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo should be appreciated after the Abuja National Stadium he built was renamed after MKO Abiola. He further called on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107512,"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":[],"class_list":["post-126274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126274","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=126274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}