{"id":73404,"date":"2018-12-27T13:46:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73404"},"modified":"2018-12-27T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:48:52","slug":"2019-presidency-ive-nothing-to-do-in-america-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73404","title":{"rendered":"2019 presidency: I’ve nothing to do in America – Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The presidential candidate of PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has hinted that he may not visit the United States of America any time soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat will I even go to do in America,\u201d Atiku queried during an interview with the Hausa service of the Voice of America.<\/p>\n

Atiku was Nigeria\u2019s vice president between 1999 and 2007 under the administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/p>\n

Atiku who floored other 12 aspirants to pick the PDP\u2019s presidential ticket in Port Harcourt, is being dogged by allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n

Recall that the former Vice President and his fourth wife Jennifer Douglas, an American citizen, were allegedly indicted in 2010 in a 328-page American Senate committee report for transferring over $40 million \u201csuspect funds\u201d to America from offshore accounts between 2002 and 2008.<\/p>\n

The report had said, \u201cMs Douglas helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States, including at least $1.7 million in bribe payments from Siemens AG, a German corporation, and over $38 million from little known offshore corporations, primarily LetsGo Ltd. Inc., Guernsey Trust Company Nigeria Ltd., and Sima Holding Ltd.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The presidential candidate of PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has hinted that he may not visit the United States of America any time soon. \u201cWhat will I even go to do in America,\u201d Atiku queried during an interview with the Hausa service of the Voice of America. Atiku was Nigeria\u2019s vice president between 1999 and 2007 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69314,"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":[413,4148,62,1415],"class_list":["post-73404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-america","tag-atiku","tag-politics","tag-presidency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73404","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=73404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}