{"id":18820,"date":"2018-05-21T21:01:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2018-05-21T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:03:49","slug":"2019we-must-take-out-this-evil-government-afenifere-join-forces-with-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18820","title":{"rendered":"2019:&#8221;WE MUST TAKE OUT THIS EVIL GOVERNMENT&#8221; &#8211; AFENIFERE JOINS FORCES WITH OBASANJO"},"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><strong>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday met with leaders of Afenifere ahead of the 2019 presidential election<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, the two parties agreed to join hands together and present a \u201cunited force\u201d that will \u201crescue\u201d Nigeria<br \/>\nfrom its current state.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting held at the residence of Reuben Fasoranti, Afenifere leader, in Akure, Ondo state capital.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo said it could be \u201cdisastrous\u201d to not \u201crepair\u201d Nigeria in its current state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority is now one. If we do not join hands to repair this country now, it will collapse and this could be disastrous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also recalled how Afenifere leaders had withheld their support for him while seeking election in 1999, after a series of visits to them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=-1&amp;pl=16215&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The former president commended the group for being at the forefront of fighting for the interest of the Yoruba and for also contributing its quota to national unity.<\/p>\n<p>Responding, Fasoranti, assured Obasanjo of the support of the group to achieving peace and unity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also said it will be \u201cthe joy of everybody\u201d to present \u201ca formidable team to confront the evil government that is there now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cNothing is being done properly in this country presently. Look at the killings in the north, the president is very silent about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all Nigerians. If he can keep silent about the killing of his people, that is bad enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18603\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday met with leaders of Afenifere ahead of the 2019 presidential election. At the meeting, the two parties agreed to join hands together and present a \u201cunited force\u201d that will \u201crescue\u201d Nigeria from its current state. The meeting held at the residence of Reuben Fasoranti, Afenifere leader, in Akure, Ondo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18821,"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":[867,182,4679],"class_list":["post-18820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-afenifere","tag-olusegun-obasanjo","tag-reuben-fasoranti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/OBASANJO.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4Ty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820","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=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18824,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions\/18824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}