{"id":14647,"date":"2019-01-17T20:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T20:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2019-01-17T20:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T20:10:58","slug":"updated-videos-and-photos-of-atiku-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14647","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Video and photos of Atiku in Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar has arrived Washington DC on a visit to the United States.<br \/>\nThe PDP presidential candidate arrived at 20.20 hours (14.20 hours Washington DC time), according to his media aide, Paul Ibe, who earlier told a newspaper, Daily Trust, his boss had not travelled.<br \/>\nAtiku on his verified Twitter handle confirmed his arrival within five minutes of touching town. He tweeted: &#8220;Just arrived Washington D.C for meeting with US government officials, Nigerians living in D.C metropolis and the business community. -AA\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/EafM47B83A<br \/>\n\u2014 Atiku Abubakar (@atiku)\u00a0January 17, 2019&#8221;<br \/>\nIbe&#8217;s statement added: &#8220;Yesterday, Atiku Abubakar met with the business community in Lagos at an interactive session to unveil his plans to get Nigeria working again.<br \/>\n&#8220;Thursday morning, he left Abuja accompanied by the DG of PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation and Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki for the\u00a0 United States.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Atiku Abubakar will in the course of his trip hold meeting with US government officials, the business community and the Nigerian community.<br \/>\n&#8220;He returns to the country on Saturday.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14650\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-20190117-WA0011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 432px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-14647-1\" width=\"432\" height=\"848\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VID-20190117-WA0010-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VID-20190117-WA0010-1.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VID-20190117-WA0010-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar has arrived Washington DC on a visit to the United States. The PDP presidential candidate arrived at 20.20 hours (14.20 hours Washington DC time), according to his media aide, Paul Ibe, who earlier told a newspaper, Daily Trust, his boss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}