{"id":71473,"date":"2022-09-02T16:46:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T15:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi"},"modified":"2022-09-02T18:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T17:11:02","slug":"you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi","title":{"rendered":"You never voted Buhari, Adesina mocks Abdullahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has reacted to the statement by the chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Ango Abdullahi, in which he aimed a veiled criticism at President Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi had said the north would not support a candidate who seeks to benefit from strategies that exploit the ethnic and religious diversity of the zone.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi said, \u201cWe bear scars from governance by one we substantially voted into power twice. Northern votes will be cast by people who are now\u2026 more discerning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While reacting to the criticism, Adesina, in a tweet via his verified Twitter handle derided Abdullahi, saying he never voted for President Buhari in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Adesina wrote, \u201cBut the Professor forgets. He never voted PMB. He had his candidate and they were both beaten black and blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It could be recalled that Adesina had in the past described the Northern Elders Forum led by Abdullahi as a mere irritant.<\/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 Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has reacted to the statement by the chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Ango Abdullahi, in which he aimed a veiled criticism at President Buhari. Abdullahi had said the north would not support a candidate who seeks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":71472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[7262,1220,1570,2140,97,254],"class_list":["post-71473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-abdullahi","tag-adesina","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-nigeria"],"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>You never voted Buhari, Adesina mocks Abdullahi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has reacted to the statement by ...\" \/>\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\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"You never voted Buhari, Adesina mocks Abdullahi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has reacted to the statement by ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-02T15:46:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-02T17:11:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_19-63123901082b4.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\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"You never voted Buhari, Adesina mocks Abdullahi\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-02T15:46:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-02T17:11:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi\"},\"wordCount\":182,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_19-63123901082b4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"abdullahi\",\"Adesina\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/you-never-voted-buhari-adesina-mocks-abdullahi\",\"name\":\"You never voted Buhari, Adesina mocks Abdullahi - 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