{"id":67145,"date":"2018-12-05T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=67145"},"modified":"2018-12-05T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T09:19:33","slug":"2019-presidency-el-rufai-accuses-pdp-atiku-of-importing-supporters-from-niger-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=67145","title":{"rendered":"2019 Presidency: El-Rufai accuses PDP, Atiku of importing supporters from Niger Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/El-Rufai1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday said majority of the persons who participated at the Peoples Democratic Party presidential rally, which held in Sokoto on Monday were imported from neighbouring Niger Republic.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai stated this on Tuesday during the inauguration of his campaign committee in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Kaduna Governor, the PDP brought these people to show that they have supporters and \u201cbecause Sokoto indigenes refused to attend the rally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, however, vowed that his governing party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), will not allow looters and criminals return to power in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThieves have ganged up against President Muhammadu Buhari. Yesterday (Monday) they (PDP) went to Sokoto for a rally and brought in people from Niger Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was to show that they have crowd because Sokoto people refused to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur people should be assured that the very day Buhari will come to Kaduna, all our people that will receive him will be Kaduna indigenes and not people from Niger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will fight for every vote and persuade our people that you will only secure victory for the party you support when you vote on election day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP on Monday launched its zonal presidential rally in Sokoto for the North-west which was addressed by the party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar; Senate President Bukola Saraki, the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday said majority of the persons who participated at the Peoples Democratic Party presidential rally, which held in Sokoto on Monday were imported from neighbouring Niger Republic. El-Rufai stated this on Tuesday during the inauguration of his campaign committee in Kaduna. According to the Kaduna Governor, the PDP brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8913,"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":[1048,5730,58],"class_list":["post-67145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67145","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=67145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}