{"id":5302,"date":"2015-07-22T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2015-07-22T08:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:59:51","slug":"obama-jets-out-to-kenya-leaving-buhari-behind-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5302","title":{"rendered":"Obama Jets Out To Kenya, Leaving Buhari Behind In US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has left the US to travel to Kenya for his African tour that will take him to Ethiopia also, leaving the Nigerian President, Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in the US.<br \/>\nInternational Diplomats were not perplexed about this unusual development, as they are aware that Buhari\u2019s visit was planned at his instance, through Mr David Axellrod (Obama\u2019s former Campaign manager) and this overlapped Obama\u2019s long scheduled African tour.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari\u2019s visit was described by the US Foreign office as a private visit and not an official one and there is no way it will interfere with Obama\u2019s official program.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian President will not be coming back with any documented agreement with the US pledging any help on the Nigerian economy or the war on terror, implying that this N2.2billion tour succeeded in achieving nothing for Nigeria and is now another wasted journey.<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/buhari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5018\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/buhari.jpg\" alt=\"buhari\" width=\"199\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has left the US to travel to Kenya for his African tour that will take him to Ethiopia also, leaving the Nigerian President, Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in the US. International Diplomats were not perplexed about this unusual development, as they are aware that Buhari\u2019s visit was planned at his instance, through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[231,287],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","tag-president-mohammadu-buhari","tag-president-obama"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1nw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5303,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}