{"id":63253,"date":"2022-04-17T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike"},"modified":"2022-04-17T16:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T15:28:05","slug":"dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike","title":{"rendered":"Dariye, Nyame pardon: \u2018You are playing bolekaja politics\u2019 \u2013 Presidency replies Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Presidency has responded to the statement by Governor Nyesom Wike condemning the present administration for granting presidential pardon to former Governors of Plateau and Taraba States.<\/p>\n<p>Wike had days ago described the pardon as totally against Buhari\u2019s anti-corruption crusade.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Joshua Dariye of Plateau State and Jolly Nyame of Taraba State, were recently pardoned on health and age grounds when they still have several years to complete their jail terms.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wike, Buhari ridiculed the judiciary and the anti-corruption crusade of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by pardoning the ex-governors.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Buhari\u2019s spokesman, Garba Shehu in a post on his verified Twitter page, said Wike\u2019s criticism lacked moral justification.<\/p>\n<p>Garba Shehu wrote: \u201cI do not see the moral justification for Governor Wike\u2019s criticism of the decision of the government to pardon Governors Dariye and Nyame at a meeting to which he was duly invited but didn\u2019t attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr. Ipalibo Banigo who had joined the Council of State meeting virtually switched off her camera, so it was difficult to determine whether she sat behind the dark screen or just walked away after first joining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shehu stated that releasing a press release about the Governors\u2019 pardon after Wike refused to attend a meeting on the decision is \u201cbolekaja politics\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Governor (Wike) felt so strongly about the pardons, the right thing was for him or his representative to sit through the meeting and assert views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis he did not do. A press release after the meeting is bolekaja politics,\u201d Shehu 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 Presidency has responded to the statement by Governor Nyesom Wike condemning the present administration for granting presidential pardon to former Governors of Plateau and Taraba States. Wike had days ago described the pardon as totally against Buhari\u2019s anti-corruption crusade. Senator Joshua Dariye of Plateau State and Jolly Nyame of Taraba State, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,7236,254,7235,454],"class_list":["post-63253","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-dariye","tag-nigeria","tag-nyame-pardon","tag-wike"],"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>Dariye, Nyame pardon: \u2018You are playing bolekaja politics\u2019 \u2013 Presidency replies Wike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Presidency has responded to the statement by Governor Nyesom Wike condemning the present administration for granting ...\" \/>\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\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dariye, Nyame pardon: \u2018You are playing bolekaja politics\u2019 \u2013 Presidency replies Wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Presidency has responded to the statement by Governor Nyesom Wike condemning the present administration for granting ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-17T14:20:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-17T15:28:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_1-625c31592e40c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Dariye, Nyame pardon: \u2018You are playing bolekaja politics\u2019 \u2013 Presidency replies Wike\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-17T14:20:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-17T15:28:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike\"},\"wordCount\":287,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_1-625c31592e40c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Dariye\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nyame Pardon\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dariye-nyame-pardon-you-are-playing-bolekaja-politics-presidency-replies-wike\",\"name\":\"Dariye, Nyame pardon: \u2018You are playing bolekaja politics\u2019 \u2013 Presidency replies Wike - 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