{"id":43845,"date":"2021-05-25T18:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=43845"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:57:18","slug":"plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency","title":{"rendered":"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has explained why the President was absent at Saturday\u2019s burial of late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and other military officers killed in a plane crash.<\/p>\n

Onochie explained that the president must be given a 48-hour notice before any funeral outside the Presidential Villa.<\/p>\n

Attahiru and 10 officers died in a plane crash in Kaduna on Friday last week.<\/p>\n

The Army Chief and the other officers were on an official trip to Kaduna when their aircraft crashed at the Kaduna International Airport.<\/p>\n

All deceased officers were flown back to Abuja and buried at the military cemetery on Saturday.<\/p>\n

However, Buhari and his Vice, Yemi Osinbajo were physically absent during the burial ceremony in Abuja.<\/p>\n

Their absence threw a lot of criticisms from Nigerians who condemned the decision to shun the burial.<\/p>\n

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode had described Buhari and Osinbajo\u2019s absence at the burial of Attahiru and the 10 officers as insensitive.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the controversy over Buhari\u2019s absence, Onochie wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy [email protected] did not attend the funeral for our late Chief of Army Staff and the other heroes who died in an aircrash.<\/p>\n

\u201dFor a Nigerian President to be at any funeral or event outside the Villa, the event must have at least 48 hours,\u201d Onochie tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has explained why the President was absent at Saturday\u2019s burial of late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and other military officers killed in a plane crash. Onochie explained that the president must be given a 48-hour notice before any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,97,4320,254,4286],"class_list":["post-43845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-lauretta-onochie","tag-nigeria","tag-plane-crash"],"yoast_head":"\nPlane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has explained why the President was abs ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has explained why the President was abs ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-25T18:04:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-25T18:04:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency\"},\"wordCount\":238,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"Lauretta Onochie\",\"Nigeria\",\"plane crash\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency\",\"name\":\"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-25T18:04:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has explained why the President was abs ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency - Nigeria","description":"President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has explained why the President was abs ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency","og_description":"President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has explained why the President was abs ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2021-05-25T18:04:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":900,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency","datePublished":"2021-05-25T18:04:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency"},"wordCount":238,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Buhari","Lauretta Onochie","Nigeria","plane crash"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","Policy","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency","name":"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg","datePublished":"2021-05-25T18:04:58+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has explained why the President was abs ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1e36976ca.jpg","width":1200,"height":900,"caption":"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/plane-crash-why-buhari-didnt-attend-attahiru-others-burial-presidency#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Plane crash: Why Buhari didn\u2019t attend Attahiru, others\u2019 burial \u2013 Presidency"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}