{"id":2805,"date":"2019-01-19T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2019-01-19T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:11:41","slug":"atiku-in-us-why-pdp-should-be-crying-for-their-presidential-candidate-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/atiku-in-us-why-pdp-should-be-crying-for-their-presidential-candidate-el-rufai","title":{"rendered":"Atiku in US: Why PDP should be crying for their presidential candidate \u2013 El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has said there is nothing worth celebrating about the visit of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the US.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-4\" data-google-query-id=\"CP-Pj5Sb-t8CFdg64AodqCQEnA\">\n<p>El-Rufai stated this at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential rally in the state on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku visited the US for the first time in 13 years on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-google-query-id=\"CICQj5Sb-t8CFdg64AodqCQEnA\">\n<p>The APC had repeatedly said he was running away from investigations by the US authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the visit, which has got many people mocking the APC, el-Rufai said members of the PDP should be crying for Atiku instead of celebrating him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtiku is in America after begging for 12 years to get visa and people in the PDP are celebrating instead of crying. So all of a sudden, going to America is an achievement?<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-6\" data-google-query-id=\"CIGQj5Sb-t8CFdg64AodqCQEnA\">\n<p>\u201cMr. President, I first went to America when I was 23 years old, it is not an achievement, but in the minds of the PDP, getting a visa after begging for 12 years is an achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want to vote those who will go to Trump before they come back to Nigeria? Do you want those who will take all your money to America? Atiku Abubakar should be explaining to Nigerians why he did not go to America for 12 years,\u201d el-Rufai said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has said there is nothing worth celebrating about the visit of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the US. El-Rufai stated this at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential rally in the state on Friday. Atiku visited the US for the first time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[316,96,65],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-atiku","tag-kaduna","tag-pdp"],"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>Atiku in US: Why PDP should be crying for their presidential candidate \u2013 El-Rufai - 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\/atiku-in-us-why-pdp-should-be-crying-for-their-presidential-candidate-el-rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku in US: Why PDP should be crying for their presidential candidate \u2013 El-Rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has said there is nothing worth celebrating about the visit of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the US. 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