{"id":70719,"date":"2022-08-22T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference"},"modified":"2022-08-22T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:48:11","slug":"tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu failed to attend the 62nd annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday.<\/p>\n

His major contenders, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Labour Party flag bearer, Peter Obi were all present at the event which took place at the Eko Hotels, Victoria Island, Lagos State.<\/p>\n

Tinubu\u2019s running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima was, however, on ground.<\/p>\n

The arrivals of the politicians shook the auditorium as their supporters hailed their 2023 presidential candidates with rapturous applause.<\/p>\n

A video of how the former Anambra State Governor, Obi was cheered by the crowd at the conference is currently trending on social media.<\/p>\n

Atiku, while delivering his speech, restated the need to restructure the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a product of developed powers and I know what the regional governments did with those powers. That\u2019s why I\u2019m advocating for restructuring,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. The All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu failed to attend the 62nd annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday. His major contenders, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Labour Party flag bearer, Peter Obi were all present at the event which took place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":70718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,316,2983,254,222,945],"class_list":["post-70719","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-atiku","tag-nba","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"\nTinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu failed to attend the 62nd annual conference of th ...\" \/>\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\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu failed to attend the 62nd annual conference of th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-22T15:32:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-22T16:48:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.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\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-22T15:32:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-22T16:48:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference\"},\"wordCount\":175,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Atiku\",\"nBA\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\",\"Tinubu\"],\"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\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference\",\"name\":\"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-22T15:32:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-22T16:48:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu failed to attend the 62nd annual conference of th ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference\"}]},{\"@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":"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference - Nigeria","description":"The All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu failed to attend the 62nd annual conference of th ...","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\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference","og_description":"The All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu failed to attend the 62nd annual conference of th ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2022-08-22T15:32:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-22T16:48:11+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.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\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference","datePublished":"2022-08-22T15:32:07+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-22T16:48:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference"},"wordCount":175,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Atiku","nBA","Nigeria","Peter Obi","Tinubu"],"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\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference","name":"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.jpg","datePublished":"2022-08-22T15:32:07+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-22T16:48:11+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu failed to attend the 62nd annual conference of th ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_17-6303b32d5d36f.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-absent-as-peter-obi-atiku-speak-at-nba-conference#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tinubu absent as Peter Obi, Atiku speak at NBA conference"}]},{"@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\/70719","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=70719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}