{"id":17560,"date":"2019-05-05T18:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17560"},"modified":"2019-05-05T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T18:01:55","slug":"president-buhari-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17560","title":{"rendered":"President Buhari returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT BUHARI RETURNS: CAN THEY NOW SWALLOW THEIR WORDS?<br \/>\nBy\u00a0<strong>Femi Adesina<\/strong>, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity)<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari Sunday returned to Abuja, after a 10-day private visit to the United Kingdom.<br \/>\nSome reckless online media, irresponsible political opposition, and other bilious groups and individuals, had gone on overdrive since the President left the country on April 25, insinuating that he was going for hospitalization, and would not return after 10 days as stated. In their vain imaginations, they\u00a0even stated that\u00a0fictive doctors have advised President Buhari to stay longer for more intensive care.<br \/>\nNow that the President has returned, can these apostles of evil imaginings swallow their words? Can they retract their tendentious stories as well as press statements, and apologize to millions of Nigerians both at home and in the Diaspora that they have fed with hogwash?<br \/>\nFew days after the celebration of World Press Freedom Day, we daresay that this valuable freedom does not tantamount to liberty to mislead and hoodwink the populace through concocted and jejune publications.<br \/>\nThe Buhari administration will always respect and uphold press freedom, but the onus lies on those prone to passing off fiction as facts, to remember that freedom demands concomitant responsibility. Those who further share and disseminate falsehood are also encouraged to embrace responsible conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT BUHARI RETURNS: CAN THEY NOW SWALLOW THEIR WORDS? By\u00a0Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday returned to Abuja, after a 10-day private visit to the United Kingdom. Some reckless online media, irresponsible political opposition, and other bilious groups and individuals, had gone on overdrive since the President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560","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=17560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}