{"id":699636,"date":"2019-09-05T19:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/05\/i-didnt-attend-wef-in-south-africa-governor-fayemi\/"},"modified":"2019-09-05T19:08:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:08:57","slug":"i-didnt-attend-wef-in-south-africa-governor-fayemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/05\/i-didnt-attend-wef-in-south-africa-governor-fayemi\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#8217;t Attend WEF In South Africa \u2014 Governor Fayemi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi on Thursday dismissed reports that he attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the Ekiti governor with Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna counterpart, and Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, in South Africa had emerged earlier on.<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of the photos had outraged critics who opined that the governors ought not to have attended the conference, especially since the federal government boycotted it over the recent attacks on Nigerians in the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a statement, Fayemi said he was in South Africa to attend a different event on the invitation of his friend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Nigerians Throw Stones At Buhari\u2019s Aide Over Fayemi, El-Rufai\u2019s Attendance At WEF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to some misleading online reports, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi was not at the World Economic Forum in South Africa,\u00a0the Governor is in South Africa to honour an invitation by a long-time friend and one of Nigeria\u2019s most celebrated journalist, Mr Dele Olojode at the \u201cAfrica in the World Festival of Ideas\u201d which held in Stellensbosch far away from Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore importantly, the event already held before the decision of the Federal Government to boycott the WEF programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi on Thursday dismissed reports that he attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Cape Town, South Africa. Photos of the Ekiti governor with Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna counterpart, and Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, in South Africa had emerged earlier on. The emergence of the photos had outraged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":699637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I Didn&#039;t Attend WEF In South Africa \u2014 Governor Fayemi - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/05\/i-didnt-attend-wef-in-south-africa-governor-fayemi\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I Didn&#039;t Attend WEF In South Africa \u2014 Governor Fayemi - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi on Thursday dismissed reports that he attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Cape Town, South Africa. 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