{"id":16878,"date":"2017-11-21T19:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16878"},"modified":"2017-11-21T19:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:43:54","slug":"ibori-hypocrites-shedding-crocodile-tears-over-ekwuemes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16878","title":{"rendered":"IBORI: HYPOCRITES SHEDDING CROCODILE TEARS OVER EKWUEME&#8217;S DEATH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=15158&amp;ad_type=74&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, has said Nigerians are \u201cshedding Crocodile tears\u201d over the death of former Vice President Alex Ekwueme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ibori said this in a statement by signed his spokesman, Tony Eluemunor.<br \/>\nThe former Governor said the country refused to allow Ekwueme rescue it.<br \/>\n\u201cThough His Excellency, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, GCON, was a great leader, a national father-figure, a stabilizing factor in Nigerian politics, I Chief James Onanefe Ibori can never stop asking \u201cwhat if!\u201d Ibori said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is ironic that the nation that betrayed this man\u2019s effort to rescue it from political and economic morass will, now that he is dead, begin to shed crocodile tears.<\/p>\n<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>\u201cEven those who betrayed the very effort to make Ekwueme President, may begin to, hypocritically; of course, bewail the fact that Ekwueme or the Igboman or woman, never ruled Nigeria.<br \/>\n\u201cEkwueme was an extraordinary polyvalent scholar who earned multiple degrees in Architecture, urban planning, sociology, history, philosophy and law from several universities. He was a gifted architect whose professional legacies dot various Nigerian cities.<br \/>\n\u201cIn politics, he was both gentlemanly and fatherly, introducing mildness even when the others had embraced roughness and irascibility.<br \/>\n\u201cIf only we had allowed Ekwueme to rule Nigeria, what example would he have set? Now, we will never know\u2026and Nigeria is the ultimate loser.<br \/>\n\u201cEkwueme has lived a full life; he has given a radiant account of himself and we all agree he was outstanding.<br \/>\n\u201cMay the Almighty God grant his gentle soul eternal rest and pour His consolation upon his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EKWUEME.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16879\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EKWUEME-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EKWUEME-300x181.png 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EKWUEME.png 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, has said Nigerians are \u201cshedding Crocodile tears\u201d over the death of former Vice President Alex Ekwueme. Ibori said this in a statement by signed his spokesman, Tony Eluemunor. The former Governor said the country refused to allow Ekwueme rescue it. \u201cThough His Excellency, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, GCON, was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16879,"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":[2789,410],"class_list":["post-16878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-alex-ekwueme","tag-james-ibori"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EKWUEME.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4oe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16878","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=16878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16880,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16878\/revisions\/16880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}