{"id":11221,"date":"2013-03-23T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=11221"},"modified":"2013-03-23T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T13:47:00","slug":"maitama-sule-is-not-dead-says-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/maitama-sule-is-not-dead-says-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Maitama Sule Is not Dead says Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to speculations of his death, the revered elder statesman, orator, diplomat and politician, Dr Maitama Sule is alive and well<\/p>\n<p>The social media and some online publications had been awash with news of his death earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>But Pointblanknews.com correspondent in Kano, who contacted family sources said the rumour was false.<\/p>\n<p>Few hours ago, Ashiru Shariff,\u00a0 the Personal Assistant to Dr Sule officially denied the reports in a statement<\/p>\n<p>Full text of statement<\/p>\n<p>Our attention has been drawn to a mischievous and malicious rumour currently gaining national currency to the effect that the foremost nationalist, frontline statesman and an illustrious northern elder, alhaji yusuf maitama sule, the danmasanin kano, is dead. The public is hereby called upon to ignore and disregard this false fabrication which is the handwork of some mischief makers\u2019 desparately vent on<br \/>\ncausing disaffection and demoralising the peace-loving people of the north.<\/p>\n<p>For the avoidance of doubt, the danmasani is hale and hearty and currently busy attending to his crowded<br \/>\nschedules and we thus wish to urge the nigerian public and the international community to continue to pray for his sound health and more years of service to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>SIGN<\/p>\n<p>ASHIRU SHARIFF<br \/>\nPERSONAL ASSISTANT TO THE DANMASANI<br \/>\nfor inquires( 08033513139, 08099665521)<br \/>\nemail: ashirshariff@gmail.com<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to speculations of his death, the revered elder statesman, orator, diplomat and politician, Dr Maitama Sule is alive and well The social media and some online publications had been&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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