{"id":1271091,"date":"2022-12-29T02:42:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T02:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/i-met-tinubu-in-1999-after-he-returned-from-exile-he-wore-sandals-his-legs-were-white-sowore\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T02:42:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T02:42:45","slug":"i-met-tinubu-in-1999-after-he-returned-from-exile-he-wore-sandals-his-legs-were-white-sowore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/i-met-tinubu-in-1999-after-he-returned-from-exile-he-wore-sandals-his-legs-were-white-sowore\/","title":{"rendered":"I Met Tinubu In 1999 After He Returned From Exile; He Wore Sandals &#038; His Legs Were White &#8211; Sowore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has disclosed that he met the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, once in his entire life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sowore said that he saw the former governor of Lagos State after he returned from exile in 1999.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The publisher of SaharaReporters said he was with the late Fredrick Fasehun, the founder of the Oodua People\u2019s Congress (OPC), when he saw the APC presidential candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sowore added that Tinubu wore sandals and his legs were white when he saw him in 1999.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The AAC presidential candidate said this in an interview with a Yoruba newspaper, Alaroye.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sowore, who spoke in Yoruba, said, \u201cIn my entire life, I met Tinubu once. It was in 1999, when he had just returned from exile. He was walking and campaigning with Obanikoro at Ikeja.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was with Dr. Fasehun, the late OPC founder. He showed me Tinubu. Tinubu wore sandals, and his legs were white.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sowore posted the interview on his verified Twitter account on Wednesday, December 28, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YeleSowore\/status\/1608148377073500161?t=9zwH61jZWCMq3nmvBkkoXQ&amp;s=19\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the video here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f385fd8de04f4e8eac6d57f30eb396d9\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OfficialReporter (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAAC<br \/>Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu<br \/>Sowore<br \/>Tinubu<br \/>Yoruba<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has disclosed that he met the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, once in his entire life.\u00a0 Sowore said that he saw the former governor of Lagos State after he returned from exile in 1999.\u00a0 The publisher of SaharaReporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}