{"id":8623,"date":"2018-04-11T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2018-04-11T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:39:24","slug":"how-looters-agents-plan-to-protest-against-buhari-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=8623","title":{"rendered":"Looters planned protest against Buhari in London, says Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency says \u201cNigerian looters\u201d have put together plans to disrupt the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to London.<br \/>\nState House correspondents were told the looters \u00a0had rented a crowd of professional demonstrators to protest against President Buhari on his arrival in London. The Presidency&#8217;s reaction is coming shortly after a video of demonstrators in London went viral on social media platforms.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8623-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VID-20180411-WA0017.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VID-20180411-WA0017.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VID-20180411-WA0017.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\n\u201cBarely 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari declared his intention to contest for another term in office as President of Nigeria, the camps of alleged looters and corrupt elements within and outside the country have been jolted.<br \/>\n\u201cThis has forced them to push panic buttons including renting a motley crowd of professional demonstrators to protest against the President on his arrival into the United Kingdom,\u201d the source told journalists.<br \/>\nAccording to the impeccable sources in Aso Villa and Britain, extremely corrupt Nigerians who are custodians of slush funds stolen from Nigeria, and hiding in UK or are resident cronies of such elements, have colluded to form a league of protesters.<br \/>\nThe sources maintained that the protesters\u2019 singular aim was to distract and disorganise the scheduled state visit of the President to England.<br \/>\nPresident Buhari is billed to hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and other dignitaries.<br \/>\n\u201cEsteemed Nigerians home and abroad, friends and business investors in Nigeria, should please see through the veil of the motive behind the Abuja House, Kensington London demonstration.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was an orchestrated act of desperation and a ploy to blackmail and hoodwink the President from concentrating on his anti corruption campaign , which is fast gaining grounds locally and internationally,\u201d our source stated authoritatively.<br \/>\n\u201cThis unpatriotic act is not unconnected to the Federal government policies to name and shame corrupt citizens and looters; to collate database of Nigerians with homes in UK who are not paying the right taxes, and the hot drive to prosecute all financial defaulters through bilateral and multilateral means&#8230;.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cHence, they are resolute to derail the apple cart in order to save their ugly faces and sit back to enjoy the loot in their personal banks.<br \/>\n\u201cSome of the protesters are not even Nigerians but hired hatchet men paid to do the dirty job.<br \/>\n\u201cAccording to security sources, the protesters are said to be bent on embarrassing and humiliating the President throughout his stay in the UK.<br \/>\n\u201cAn insider vowed that they will take their demonstrations to the venue of CHOGM holding later in the month in Britain, which President Buhari is attending as a Commonwealth Head of State,\u201d the source further revealed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency says \u201cNigerian looters\u201d have put together plans to disrupt the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to London. State House correspondents were told the looters \u00a0had rented a crowd of professional demonstrators to protest against President Buhari on his arrival in London. The Presidency&#8217;s reaction is coming shortly after a video of demonstrators in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8623","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\/8623","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=8623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}