{"id":59913,"date":"2022-02-21T17:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment"},"modified":"2022-02-21T17:41:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T16:41:58","slug":"group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment","title":{"rendered":"Group blasts Obasanjo over \u2018rebels\u2019 comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Patriotic Elders Association of Nigeria, a group of retired civil servants, military officers and some businessmen, has berated former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his comments that Nigeria needs more \u2018rebels\u2019 to speak truth to the government.<\/p>\n<p>The National President, Dr Bature AbdulAziz, said in a statement that Obasanjo and other leaders are responsible for the problems the country is facing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why we are appealing to these leaders including Obasanjo himself, who have submerged themselves into negativity regarding the nation to be patriotic and stop because Nigeria is their country too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in search of positivity that builds the nation, not negativity that destroys the nation. Nigeria is our country, and it\u2019s compulsory for us to be patriotic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to distance ourselves from people who have no positive thoughts for their nation, and we must be positive about our nation if truly we mean good for it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Patriotic Elders Association of Nigeria, a group of retired civil servants, military officers and some businessmen, has berated former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his comments that Nigeria needs more \u2018rebels\u2019 to speak truth to the government. The National President, Dr Bature AbdulAziz, said in a statement that Obasanjo and other leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":59912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,479],"class_list":["post-59913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-obasanjo"],"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>Group blasts Obasanjo over \u2018rebels\u2019 comment - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Patriotic Elders Association of Nigeria, a group of retired civil servants, military officers and some businessmen, ...\" \/>\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\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Group blasts Obasanjo over \u2018rebels\u2019 comment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Patriotic Elders Association of Nigeria, a group of retired civil servants, military officers and some businessmen, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-21T16:18:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-21T16:41:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/img-6213c0811c064.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\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\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Group blasts Obasanjo over \u2018rebels\u2019 comment\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-21T16:18:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-21T16:41:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment\"},\"wordCount\":172,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/img-6213c0811c064.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obasanjo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/group-blasts-obasanjo-over-rebels-comment\",\"name\":\"Group blasts Obasanjo over \u2018rebels\u2019 comment - 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