{"id":60360,"date":"2018-11-11T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=60360"},"modified":"2018-11-11T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T12:00:40","slug":"tribal-bigot-presidency-backs-el-rufai-reveals-what-obi-did-to-northerners-as-anambra-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=60360","title":{"rendered":"Tribal bigot: Presidency backs El-Rufai, reveals what Obi did to northerners as Anambra Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Presidency has backed Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State for describing Peter Obi, the running mate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as a \u2018tribal bigot\u2019<\/p>\n

El-Rufai had in a tweet claimed 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

Speaking on the development, Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on New media, Bashir Ahmad, in a post on his Twitter page, accused Obi of deporting northerners from his state during his tenure as governor of Anambra.<\/p>\n

Replying a tweet from Peter Obi, Ahmad wrote: \u201cIt\u2019s a FACT that when you were Governor you deported Northerners back home, majority from my State, Kano, Jigawa, Katsina etc, and it\u2019s still very fresh in those people\u2019s mind and their families. They don\u2019t even need a reminder.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Mallam El-Rufai did was just a reminder, but those people don\u2019t forget at all, many of them lost their businesses. Sure, they will respond appropriately in February 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Obi had warned El-Rufai to stop making hate speeches that will divide and destroy the country but rather focus on encouraging Nigerians.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Presidency has backed Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State for describing Peter Obi, the running mate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as a \u2018tribal bigot\u2019 El-Rufai had in a tweet claimed that Obi supported his (El-Rufai\u2019s) arrest by the Department of State Services, DSS in 2014 on the ground […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55462,"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-60360","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\/60360","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=60360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}