{"id":136098,"date":"2019-07-16T08:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T07:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136098"},"modified":"2019-07-16T08:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T07:22:13","slug":"presidency-reacts-to-criticisms-against-buhari-over-murder-of-afenifere-leaders-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136098","title":{"rendered":"Presidency reacts to criticisms against Buhari over murder of Afenifere leader’s daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Presidency said it has noted public concerns on the unfortunate attack leading to the death of daughter of the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti.<\/p>\n

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, in a statement, Monday night said the President had already issued a statement expressing his heartfelt condolences to the family of Mrs Funke Olakunri and followed up with a telephone call.<\/p>\n

It added that Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo also paid a visit to the grieving family in Akure, Ondo State.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer death is a tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family. It is incumbent on all leaders across the country to consider their language and its potential consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cInsecurity is an issue that Nigeria must face together as one nation \u2013 united. Times of tragedy like these are not the time for politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt reveals only disrespect for the departed and her family. And we hope that those who stand in positions of influence recognise and understand this,\u201d the statement added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Presidency said it has noted public concerns on the unfortunate attack leading to the death of daughter of the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, in a statement, Monday night said the President had already issued a statement expressing his heartfelt condolences to the family of Mrs Funke Olakunri and followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136099,"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],"tags":[868,41,8376],"class_list":["post-136098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afenifere","tag-buhari","tag-garba-shebu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136098","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=136098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}