{"id":2522,"date":"2020-11-27T07:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T07:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2020-11-27T07:36:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T07:36:23","slug":"endsars-general-yakubu-gowon-honesty-and-integrity-are-impeccable-dr-akinwumi-adesina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/?p=2522","title":{"rendered":"[#EndSARS]: General Yakubu Gowon Honesty And Integrity Are Impeccable &#8211; Dr Akinwumi Adesina."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2525\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2525\" src=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-083148-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-083148-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-083148.png 322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Akinwumi Adesina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The president of the African Development Bank (AFDB) and former Minister of agriculture in Nigeria, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has reacted to a statement by a United Kingdom parliamentarian who said General Yakubu Gowon looted half of Nigeria wealth when he led the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2524\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2524\" src=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-083015-294x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-083015-294x300.png 294w, https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-083015.png 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Yakubu Gowon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a tweet by the AFDB president verified twitter handle @akin_adesina, &#8220;Be careful of misinformation! H.E. General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria\u2019s former Head of State, is a man of great honour, decency, honesty, amazing simplicity, humility and integrity. I know him. A great and admirable elder statesman of Nigeria. His honesty and integrity are impeccable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2523 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-082627-162x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-082627-162x300.png 162w, https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-082627-552x1024.png 552w, https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201127-082627.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the African Development Bank (AFDB) and former Minister of agriculture in Nigeria, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has reacted to a statement by a United Kingdom parliamentarian who said&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[103,20],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-stories","tag-endsars","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}