{"id":60216,"date":"2018-11-10T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=60216"},"modified":"2018-11-10T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:24:15","slug":"2019-presidency-okupe-attacks-el-rufai-over-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=60216","title":{"rendered":"2019 presidency: Okupe attacks El-Rufai over Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Doyin-Okupe-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Doyin Okupe, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has attacked the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>Okupe was reacting to a tweet where Governor El-Rufai described Peter Obi, the running mate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as a \u201creligious bigot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai recalled that Obi supported his (El-Rufai\u2019s) arrest by the Department of State Services, DSS in 2014 on the ground that \u201cEl-Rufai has no business being in Anambra State as it is not Katsina State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okupe described El-Rufai as a rabid religious midget.<\/p>\n<p>Okupe tweeted, \u201cPeter Obi is a tribal bigot\u2026.El-Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe: El-Rufai is a rabid religious midget.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doyin Okupe, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has attacked the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. Okupe was reacting to a tweet where Governor El-Rufai described Peter Obi, the running mate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as a \u201creligious bigot.\u201d El-Rufai recalled that Obi supported his (El-Rufai\u2019s) arrest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42864,"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":[5870,3945,6214],"class_list":["post-60216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-doyin-okupe","tag-elrufai","tag-peter-obi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60216","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=60216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}