{"id":2157,"date":"2019-01-10T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2019-01-10T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:24:10","slug":"nnamdi-kanu-reacts-to-buharis-latest-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-reacts-to-buharis-latest-interview","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu reacts to Buhari\u2019s latest interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has spoken on the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s latest interview.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-4\" data-google-query-id=\"CI-v9Z2C5N8CFUsL4Aodpu8PHw\">\n<p>In a chat with Arise Television, Buhari dismissed allegations of marginalisation of the Igbo in his appointments.<\/p>\n<p>The President said: \u201cSomebody made an observation \u2013 and I made it clear for the first time \u2013 that I was not patronising the Igbo from the south-east.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took the paper from him, I told him that when I won the election, I studied the amount of votes I got from all the geopolitical zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said I got 198,000 something from the whole of the south-east; 198, 000 which virtually any local government can give me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I appointed ministers of foreign affairs, minister of labour, minister of industries and investment, minister of mines and tech.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-6\" data-google-query-id=\"CJGv9Z2C5N8CFUsL4Aodpu8PHw\">\n<p>\u201cBut these four, I never knew them from Adam. But from seven states of the north, I have ministers of states, they are under these ministers. How fair do you want me to be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, during the chat, Buhari erroneously called \u201cMines and Tech\u201d a ministry but was corrected by one of the interviewers, who said \u201cScience and Tech\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Kanu on Twitter Wednesday night, again alleged that the President is an impostor not familiar with federal government ministries.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu tweeted: \u201cIn the heavily edited and fraudulent interview, @NGRPresident (Jubril) couldn\u2019t name his ministries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelp from journalist that there\u2019s no Mines &amp; Tech but Science &amp; Tech, fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDead Buhari was dumb but he knew his key ministries? #UnmaskJubril.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has spoken on the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s latest interview. In a chat with Arise Television, Buhari dismissed allegations of marginalisation of the Igbo in his appointments. The President said: \u201cSomebody made an observation \u2013 and I made it clear for the first time \u2013 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[173,226],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-parties","tag-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nnamdi Kanu reacts to Buhari\u2019s latest interview - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-reacts-to-buharis-latest-interview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nnamdi Kanu reacts to Buhari\u2019s latest interview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has spoken on the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s latest interview. 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