{"id":16445,"date":"2017-10-19T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16445"},"modified":"2017-10-19T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T20:05:50","slug":"governors-accused-buharis-aide-femi-adesina-of-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16445","title":{"rendered":"GOVERNORS ACCUSE BUHARI&#8217;S AIDE, FEMI ADESINA OF LYING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has described as \u201cvery unfortunate\u201d reports that President Muhammadu Buhari is not happy with governors over unpaid salaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some governors had met with Buhari before he left for Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In a statement released after the meeting, Femi Adesina, Buhari\u2019s spokesman, said his principal asked the governors\u00a0how they were able to sleep\u00a0when workers had not been paid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cHow can anyone go to bed and sleep soundly when workers have not been paid their salaries for months,\u201d he quoted Buhari to have said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI actually wonder how the workers feed their families, pay their rents and even pay school fees for their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But speaking to state house correspondents on late Wednesday, Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara state and NGF chairman, denied such comments as coming from Buhari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said the meeting with the president was \u201cfruitful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yari said Buhari accepted all their requests but asked them to represent their case on his return from Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe briefed the members about our meeting with Mr\u00a0President yesterday (Tuesday), which I\u2019m surprised some of you turned it upside down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYou got the full briefing from me and then some of your people went and said they got from another source. I don\u2019t know which source said the president is not happy with the governors. It is very unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=14730&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe had a very fruitful meeting with Mr\u00a0President and Mr President accepted all our requests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe only thing Mr\u00a0President said was that he, not being a technical person, we should wait for the minister of finance to return, and the chairman of the economic council to be around so that they can give him update and support on what he is going to say to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cSo, he said we should reschedule this meeting. I think this is what I told the press yesterday but I wonder how they turned it around.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cPlease, we have to be serious with our job. We are working for Nigeria; we are working for our country, working for our people so we shouldn\u2019t misinform the public and should be guided with the things discussed.\u201d(CABLE)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GOVERNORS-FORUM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16446\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GOVERNORS-FORUM-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GOVERNORS-FORUM-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GOVERNORS-FORUM.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has described as \u201cvery unfortunate\u201d reports that President Muhammadu Buhari is not happy with governors over unpaid salaries. Some governors had met with Buhari before he left for Turkey. In a statement released after the meeting, Femi Adesina, Buhari\u2019s spokesman, said his principal asked the governors\u00a0how they were able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[4242],"class_list":["post-16445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-nigeria-governors-forum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GOVERNORS-FORUM.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4hf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}