{"id":37876,"date":"2015-04-23T04:24:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T03:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=37876"},"modified":"2015-04-23T04:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T03:24:33","slug":"buhari-shekau-fail-to-attend-time-100-event-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/buhari-shekau-fail-to-attend-time-100-event-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari, Shekau \u00a0fail to attend TIME 100 event in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div class=\"leftcol\">\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div class=\"message-htmlpart\">\n<div class=\"rcmBody\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #171717;\">Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria\u2019s president-elect and \u2013 unsurprisingly\u00a0\u2013 Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram sect, were among the notable absentees from the gala night held in honour of\u00a0TIME magazine\u2019s 100 most influential people in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #171717; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The All progressives Congress (APC) has yet to explain Buhari\u2019s absence at the gala, but Shekau would never have been expected, as his existence is still a puzzle in Nigerian circles<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">The event, which is usually put together to celebrate those listed, held at Lincoln Centre in New York, on Tuesday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">The TIME list of 100 most influential people in the world is an annual compilation of people whose works are changing the world, either positively or negatively.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0Five Nigerians made the current list but the inclusion of Shekau generated serious controversy. Chimamanda Adichie, notable author; Chris Ofili, a foremost paint artist; Obiageli Ezekwesili, coordinator of the #BringBackOurGirlsMovement, were the other Nigerians on the list. Ezekwesili, who attended the event, appealed to President Barrack Obama of the United States to help rescue the missing Chibok schoolgirls.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0\u201cIf he could get Osama bin Laden, he could get our girls. It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters,\u201d she said afterwards. \u201cThese girls are a symbol of our own message to girls, that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">. The military says it killed the \u201coriginal\u201d Shekau in 2013, while his impostor\u00a0\u2013 who went by the names\u00a0Bashir Mohammed, Isa Damasaka, Bashir Konduga and Abacha Abdullahi Geidam\u00a0\u2013 was killed in\u00a0a battle at Konduga, Borno state, in 2014. But Boko Haram has continued to release \u2018Shekau\u2019-made videos; while\u00a0Idriss Deby, president of Chad, lent a semblance of credence to the \u2018Shekau-is-still-alive theory by claiming that he knew the whereabouts of the militant leader. \u201cIt is in Abubakar Shekau\u2019s interest to surrender, we know where he is,\u201d Deby told AFP last month.\u00a0\u201cIf he refuses to give himself up, he will suffer the same fate as his comrades.\u201d Also, the mastermind of Shekau\u2019s death is as controversial as the death itself. Cameroon had claimed that it killed Shekau and released a picture of his dead body to back its claim, but the Nigerian military quickly moved to counter the claim, Chris Olukolade, a major-general and defence spokesman, claiming Shekau\u00a0was killed within the Nigerian territory by Nigerian soldiers.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #171717;\" \/><br style=\"color: #171717;\" \/><span style=\"color: #171717;\">Read more at:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0186ba;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thecable.ng<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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>Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria\u2019s president-elect and \u2013 unsurprisingly\u00a0\u2013 Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram sect, were among the notable absentees from the gala night held in honour of\u00a0TIME magazine\u2019s 100&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":37877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37876","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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