{"id":157265,"date":"2019-10-03T14:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157265"},"modified":"2019-10-03T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:12:51","slug":"xenophobia-ezekwesili-tells-buhari-what-to-do-on-visit-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157265","title":{"rendered":"Xenophobia: Ezekwesili tells Buhari what to do on visit to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s visit to South Africa.<\/p>\n

DAILY Post reports that Buhari on Wednesday arrived Pretoria, South Africa, for a state visit and 9th meeting of the Bi-National Commission.<\/p>\n

Buhari\u2019s spokesman, Garba Shehu, who confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja on Thursday morning, said the 9th meeting of the commission would for the first time witness participation of the two Heads of State after an elevation.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Buhari\u2019s visit, Ezekwesili urged the President to tell his South African counterpart to give a speech assuring Nigerians of their stay and hospitality in the country.<\/p>\n

Ezekwesili, on her Twitter page wrote: \u201cAnyways, since President Buhari has decided that a visit to South Africa is useful, let me offer him some useful tips for his meetings there.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. President, listen to this for your engagement with your counterpart. He has already done some of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet the South Africa president connect with the victims [of the xenophobic attacks in Pretoria, Johannesburg], assure them that they are welcome in this country. It would help give them the social license they require to be part of this country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government of South Africa really needs to offer a sincere apology to the whole continent.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s visit to South Africa. DAILY Post reports that Buhari on Wednesday arrived Pretoria, South Africa, for a state visit and 9th meeting of the Bi-National Commission. Buhari\u2019s spokesman, Garba Shehu, who confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja on Thursday morning, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137490,"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":[2658,354,13052],"class_list":["post-157265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-south-africa","tag-xenophobia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157265","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=157265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}