{"id":73300,"date":"2018-12-27T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73300"},"modified":"2018-12-27T09:01:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:01:50","slug":"ive-shed-blood-for-nigeria-till-i-die-buhari-will-address-me-as-sir-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73300","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve shed blood for Nigeria; till I die, Buhari will address me as \u2018Sir\u2019\u2019 – Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, said he\u2019s qualified to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari, having presided over the affairs of the country and shed blood for the unity of the nation.<\/p>\n

He said this at the 2018 Ibogun Day celebration, which attracted notable indigenes of Ogun State on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Also in attendance were: Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, two gubernatorial candidates of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Allied People\u2019s Movement (APM), Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka and Hon. Adekunle Akinlade, respectively.<\/p>\n

Obasanjo said that Buhari would have not won in 2015 election if not for his support.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cI know Buhari and he too knows me. Till the day I die, Buhari will continue to address me as \u2018sir.\u2019 In 2015, if I didn\u2019t support Buhari, he wouldn\u2019t have won the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have what it takes to correct him. Nigeria should not be in the position we are today. Nigeria can be better. God has given us all that we need.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am qualified to speak against Buhari. One, I have done it before. Two, I have shed my blood for this country. Even my biological son has shed his blood. Why can\u2019t I speak about what is best for this country? I am doubly qualified to do that.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, said he\u2019s qualified to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari, having presided over the affairs of the country and shed blood for the unity of the nation. He said this at the 2018 Ibogun Day celebration, which attracted notable indigenes of Ogun State on Wednesday. Also in attendance were: Ogun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8642,"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-73300","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\/73300","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=73300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}