{"id":108908,"date":"2024-01-30T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T10:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:29:29","slug":"i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients","title":{"rendered":"I visited Buhari to discuss Igbo presidency \u2013 Segun Sowunmi slams Obidients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former spokesman to the People Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Campaign Organisation, Segun Sowunmi, has said that one of the things that took him to Daura, Katsina State, on a visit to former President Muhammadu Buhari was to know his thoughts about the possibility of a Nigerian president from the South-East.<\/p>\n

He also said he was there for a discussion on the future of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

According to him, he visited the former president to learn from his experiences having served Nigeria for eight years.<\/p>\n

Sowunmi recently attracted criticism after sharing photos of his visit to the former president on his social media account.<\/p>\n

The former Atiku\u2019s spokesperson, however, expressed disappointment over the reception he got from the Obidients after the visit, insisting he was only trying to broaden the discussion on South-East presidency<\/p>\n

His visit to Daura came barely a few days after another spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, Daniel Bwala, also visited President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been seeing for some time now what is going on here, something was not adding up then I went to visit the President of whom you know I go to often and I was agonising to him that \u2018look Mr, you people can feed yourself but we can\u2019t feed ourselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the second thing is that the South easterners are quite upset with their desire to be president and I said let me go to him and have a conversation on that, \u2018Mr, we collaborated with ourselves to give Yoruba the Presidency when June 12 happened, are we going to watch the South easterners struggle and be angry? Do you people have a way of figuring out this thing…?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe grew up believing that there was one north that can stabilize the others when they start to quarrel but you\u2019ve lost the whole of the middle belt, people are dying there. And if you\u2019re running the race you\u2019re going to lose the northeast because when the North West stands up for election, the North East backs them, but when the North East stands up for election, you people pretend as if there\u2019s another alternative discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were the kind of conversations I went to have with the former President. I would have given you answers [I got from Buhari] but even the Obidients, the Peter Obi people I was trying like let\u2019s broaden the conversation, let\u2019s broaden the discussion they were down to angry with those abuses and I was like \u2018what\u2019s going on here?\u2019 If everybody wants to be tribalistic, then I will be tribal too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former spokesman to the People Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Campaign Organisation, Segun Sowunmi, has said that one of the things that took him to Daura, Katsina State, on a visit to former President Muhammadu Buhari was to know his thoughts about the possibility of a Nigerian president from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":108907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,97,254,12580],"class_list":["post-108908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-nigeria","tag-segun-sowunmi"],"yoast_head":"\nI visited Buhari to discuss Igbo presidency \u2013 Segun Sowunmi slams Obidients - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former spokesman to the People Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Campaign Organisati ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I visited Buhari to discuss Igbo presidency \u2013 Segun Sowunmi slams Obidients\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former spokesman to the People Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Campaign Organisati ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-30T10:23:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-30T12:29:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/sm_1706601315.899644.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"I visited Buhari to discuss Igbo presidency \u2013 Segun Sowunmi slams Obidients\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-30T10:23:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-30T12:29:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients\"},\"wordCount\":461,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/sm_1706601315.899644.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"Nigeria\",\"Segun Sowunmi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-visited-buhari-to-discuss-igbo-presidency-segun-sowunmi-slams-obidients\",\"name\":\"I visited Buhari to discuss Igbo presidency \u2013 Segun Sowunmi slams Obidients - 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