{"id":67047,"date":"2018-12-05T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T09:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=67047"},"modified":"2018-12-05T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T09:36:12","slug":"halliburton-bribery-scandal-tinubu-challenges-atiku-demands-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=67047","title":{"rendered":"Halliburton bribery scandal: Tinubu challenges Atiku, demands explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tinubu.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar on the Halliburton bribery scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu dared the former Vice President to disclose to Nigerians why Halliburton left the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the National Consultative Forum themed: \u201cNigeria on the right track\u201d organised by the National Committee of Buhari Support Groups, on Tuesday, Tinubu said the Waziri of Adamawa should explain why NEPA was privatized to wealthy Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor of Lagos State stated that Nigerians have crossed the red ocean and they cannot be taken back to Egypt, Daily Trust reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said we should not talk about the past. We must look at what you have done before. We have to look at the Halliburton issue. Why do they leave Nigeria? $16billion on NEPA for darkness\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they see that we are kicking them out, they rush to privatise the company, what I call personalization of the wealth of Nigerians,\u201d Tinubu said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar on the Halliburton bribery scandal. Tinubu dared the former Vice President to disclose to Nigerians why Halliburton left the country. Speaking during the National Consultative Forum themed: \u201cNigeria on the right track\u201d organised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26069,"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":[1048,8289,8526],"class_list":["post-67047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-bola-ahmad-tinubu","tag-halliburton-scandal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047","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=67047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}