jaxxy: No u are wrong! When remi greeted 1st time, pantami and Buhari we’re still greeting. Buhari cud not have responded, then pantami blocks her and directs him to other men and she greets again when Buhari has to awkwardly turn and greet her properly. Pantami didn’t care.
When did Buhari say. "Madam senator, how are you"? Get a headset and listen. Remember that Buhari shook another man after greeting Pantami and before greeting Tinubu.
jaxxy: Why then did Buhari awkwardly turn to greet her again? because pantami interrupted intentionally or unintentionally. I know remi by culture may not want to shake Buhari bt still pantami was inappropriate. Period.
That's it! The question you should ask is, why did Remi and Buhari not exchange handshakes the first time, when they were face to face? Buhari turned because she spoke again. That's when she said, "Very well sir". They could have extended their hands when they were face to face during the first exchange of "Good morning sir" and "Madam senator, how are you", but they didn't and that's when Buhari moved on and Pantami also repositioned himself. Then Remi replied, so Buhari had to look back.
Buhari shakes the hand of the first man in the line without saying anything to him.
Remi Tinubu: “Good morning sir” (and she curtsies) Buhari: “Madam senator. How are you?”
Remi Tinubu: “Very well sir” (and she curtsies again)
Pantami points to the next man in the line and says: “This is our chairman Senate committee on . . .”
Pantami’s voice is drowned out by the voices of photographers and security men who are jostling for space: “Kai! This man pushed me on you, what is it?”
nedekid: Bros, your writeup is noteworthy. But I beg to disagree about the above YouTube video. That patami fellow clearly shielded buhari from any form of interaction with Mrs tinubu. Possibly to enable the president avoid shaking her. Even the blind can see that. Patami has a history of avoiding exchanging such pleasantries. His is more extreme than buhari.
naptu2: Pantami didn't force anything. After Buhari greeted the first man on the line he came face to face with Remi Tinubu. Either of President Buhari or Mrs Tinubu could have extended a hand for a handshake. Neither did. Pantami was the host and it was his duty to introduce the people on the line. Mrs Tinubu and President Buhari had already spoken. Someone touched Pantami from behind that he should move aside so they could take pictures. He turned round and then introduced the next person on the queue.
This is just a repetition of an attempt that was made in 2019. This happened in November 2019 and several threads were created that claimed that President Buhari does not shake women. The same claim was made in 2015. Pantami was only included this time because he's the one trending at the moment. He did not block anybody. Watch the video again. Besides, do you seriously believe that Pantami could have blocked Buhari if Buhari wanted to shake Mrs Tinubu? Seriously?
jaxxy: Dude sm1 tapped pantami from behind truely bt he blocked Remi and directed the president to other people. That is exactly what happened.
It was Buhari who had to awkwardly turn again to remi to greet her nevertheless with a nod in other not to seem like he disregarded her b4 he shook the man pantami directed him to.
It may be nothing bt it doesn’t seem right for official standards.
Get headsets and listen to what was said. Remi had already curtsied to Buhari the first time and spoken to him before Pantami came in between them when he was turning. That was before the man tapped him. Buhari was face to face with Remi at that time. If you notice, she curtsied twice. The first time she was face to face with him and the second time he had to look back at her.
There is no way that Pantami would have been able to block Buhari from shaking Remi if he wanted to. In fact, it was when Pantami realised that they were not going to shake that he positioned himself so that he could introduce the next man to Buhari.
Arsenal legends Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira have joined Spotify founder and billionaire Daniel Ek's bid to buy the club.
Owner Stan Kroenke has no intention to sell, but more than 1,000 fans protested outside Emirates Stadium on Friday calling for him to quit.
Arsenal had announced they were one of 12 founding members of the European Super League the previous Sunday.
But just 48 hours later, they withdrew and apologised to fans.
Kroenke's son, Josh, told an Arsenal fans forum on Thursday that his family have no intention of selling and promised to engage with fans in future - he refused to answer a question about their exit strategy, responding: "I'm not willing to answer that question because we have no intention of selling."
On Friday, Swedish businessman Ek, 38, who is worth a reported 4.7 billion US dollars (£3.38bn) tweeted: "As a kid growing up, I've cheered for Arsenal as long as I can remember. If KSE would like to sell Arsenal I'd be happy to throw my hat in the ring."
Arsenal apologised in an open letter to their fans following their withdrawal from the European Super League and said they had "made a mistake", adding that they were withdrawing after listening to supporters and the "wider football community".
The Gunners board said they did not intend to "cause such distress" and that they joined the Super League because they "did not want to be left behind" and wanted to ensure the club's future.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says Kroenke has apologised to him.
Who is Kroenke?
A 73-year-old American owner of numerous sports franchises, including NFL side the Los Angeles Rams and NBA team the Denver Nuggets.
Kroenke took a 9.9% stake in Arsenal in 2007 and slowly built up his shareholding until it reached 62.89% in April 2011. He was subsequently involved in a power battle with Alisher Usmanov but emerged successful and now owns the entire club.
Vinai Venkatesham is Arsenal's chief executive but Josh Kroenke is a director and heavily involved in the club's day-to-day operations.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek expresses interest in buying Arsenal
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Last updated Apr 24, 2021
The current owners, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, have faced a barrage of criticism for their decision to join the failed Super League Spotify founder Daniel Ek has expressed his interest in buying Arsenal.
Current owners Kroenke Sports & Entertainment have come under fire for the failed Super League project, with Gunners fans making their feelings known at a protest on Friday.
Josh Kroenke has said his family has no plans to sell, but a potential buyer is in the frame in the shape of Ek.
What has been said?
"As a kid growing up, I've cheered for Arsenal as long as I can remember," Ek wrote on Twitter.
"If KSE would like to sell Arsenal I'd be happy to throw my hat in the ring."
The Kroenke position
Arsenal were one of six Premier League clubs - the others being Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - to sign up to the Super League, only for it to collapse amid a wave of protests.
Josh Kroenke attended a fans’ forum on Thursday and was given a severe grilling, but he maintained that the position of the family was to remain in charge and move forward.
The protests continued ahead of Arsenal’s loss to Everton on Friday, and with the Gunners struggling on the field that mood is unlikely to shift.
Who is Daniel Ek?
Swedish entrepreneur Daniel Ek is worth an estimated £3.38bn (€4.7bn/$5.68bn), according to Forbes, with his fortune built on the back of the music streaming service Spotify.
The 38-year-old founded that venture back in 2006 and it has grown to amass over 350 million subscribers.
Not everyone has, however, taken kindly to Ek's remarks about potentially taking over at Arsenal.
The front man for English rock band The Charlatans, Tim Burgess, wrote on Twitter: "Could we ask that you get things sorted out with musicians before jumping in with footballers??"
The animosity relates to the fees that artists are paid for each play of their works, which is comparatively low.
Indeed, Graeme Souness joked on Sky Sports that Ek would need to spend more than £4bn to sort out the Gunners, who find themselves in ninth place in the Premier League table.
chloride6: I don't know why Buhari didn't extend his hand to Adesoun, and not knowing is fine!
Unless you have a statement from his press secretary or your livebin his thoughts, you also don't know!
Say you don't know and go home!
I do not need a statement from his press secretary, neither do I need to convince you that I know what was in his mind (which I do know). If you are fine with not knowing, that's you, but you cannot tell me what to say. You still haven't provided any facts to counter my points and I will bloody damn well say what I want and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
ArticleBeast: Most northern ladies do not shake hands with people outside their family. I believe he was just following the Islamic laws which seem to forbade handshakes between opposite sexes.
chloride6: Just stop passing your conjectures and faux opinions as facts. They are not..
I'm sure a Northern Muslim and Yoruba Woman have exchanged handshakes somewhere in this country this morning.
Thank you. You have not realised it (and I'm sure that you can't realise it) but you have not said anything that has countered the known Yoruba culture of prostrating or kneeling to elders, neither have you countered the fact that some northern women do not like being touched by men that are not their relatives (I know you can see the video of Obasanjo in Kaduna).
I know these facts don't suit your motive, but I couldn't care less.
I'm quite entertained by the fact that there has been almost zero serious counterpoint. All we have are people complaining about the length of the thread or saying that we shouldn't discuss the issue.
jaxxy: U are twisting the argument. This isn’t about Buhari we know Buhari shakes women and if he didn’t we wouldn’t mind it’s his prerogative as a president so obasanjo also does no wrong. It cud be for security reasons who knows.
Our concern here is pantami stopping or forcing the president to not do what he normally does. That is very questionable behavior.
Don’t twist the argument, ure not that slick.
Pantami didn't force any damn thing. Everybody has got eyes. After Buhari greeted the first man on the line he came face to face with Remi Tinubu. Either of President Buhari or Mrs Tinubu could have extended a hand for a handshake. Neither did. Pantami was the host and it was his duty to introduce the people on the line. Mrs Tinubu and President Buhari had already spoken. Someone touched Pantami from behind that he should move aside so they could take pictures. He turned round and then introduced the next person on the queue.
This is just a repition of an attempt that was made in 2019. This happened in November 2019 and several threads were created that claimed that President Buhari does not shake women. The same claim was made in 2015. Pantami was only included this time because he's the one trending at the moment. He did not block anybody. Watch the video again. Besides, do you seriously believe that Pantami could have blocked Buhari if Buhari wanted to shake Mrs Tinubu? Seriously?
Felabrity: if you can bring 5 pics of Obasanjo shaking women, aside "oyibo" women
I will agree
Agree what? Did I argue with you over whether Obasanjo shakes women or not? You said that Obasanjo does not shake women, someone else said that he does, shouldn't you be arguing with the person that said that he does??
Aha! Two of you should argue. Does Obasanjo shake women??
JackBaueress1: All this long epistle for Buhari and shaking hands. Who shaking hands help?
Who says Obasanjo doesn’t shake women? I remember Obasanjo shook Super Falcons during his administration when they won AFCON years back. It was termed a Presidential handshake because he didn’t reward the falcons with money......
Oga Naptu2 abeg finish the story
Felabrity: Obasanjo barely shakes women in general though
JackBaueress1: Who says Obasanjo doesn’t shake women? I remember Obasanjo shook Super Falcons during his administration when they won AFCON years back. It was termed a Presidential handshake because he didn’t reward the falcons with money......
Oga Naptu2 abeg finish the story
Who said that Obasanjo does not shake hands with women? I said that President Obasanjo did not shake hands with northern women or specifically, women who wore hijabs. Read the post again and then watch the video. Did you watch the video? Did you hear what he said in the video?
Governor El-Rufai had to tell him, "Shake her now".
naptu2: Aha! This is a video that illustrates what I wrote last year. President Olusegun Obasanjo almost never shakes hands with a northern woman. That was his exact attitude when he was president. I noticed it, but nobody complained about it.
So why were so many people complaining about President Buhari even though Buhari was not half as fanatical about it as Obasanjo. President Buhari shook hands with northern women, but Obasanjo never did it unless (as is the case in this video) he is forced to do it.
President Obasanjo visited Kaduna in 2019 and he did not shake hands with the deputy governor until he was told to do so.
(I'm going to quote my old post about this subject).
This happened way back in November 2019 ( it was at the E-Nigeria International Conference, Award and Exhibition and the minister was the chief host) and there were many threads about it on Nairaland.
Buhari shakes the hand of the first man in the line without saying anything to him.
Remi Tinubu: “Good morning sir” (and she curtsies) Buhari: “Madam senator. How are you?”
Remi Tinubu: “Very well sir” (and she curtsies again)
Pantami points to the next man in the line and says: “This is our chairman Senate committee on . . .”
Pantami’s voice is drowned out by the voices of photographers and security men who are jostling for space: “Kai! This man pushed me on you, what is it?”
naptu2: Much ado about handshakes (this is another old post that has been on my mind for years).
My British cousins were recently arguing over the question of who Boris Johnson shook hands with and who he didn’t shake hands with and that reminded me of an old post that I wanted to make but couldn’t because of lack of time.
President Buhari swore in new ministers a few months after he was inaugurated and some people noticed that he did not shake hands with some of the female ministers and they decided that he did not shake the female ministers’ hands because he was a religious extremist. They held this up as evidence that Buhari was going to “Islamise Nigeria” and declare Sharia law across the country.
I knew that their position was total nonsense because I knew that Buhari had shaken hands with women in the past, but more importantly, I knew why he didn’t shake hands with the female ministers (I’ve been there before).
I’m shocked that nobody has stated the real reason that he did not shake hands with the female ministers.
My experience.
A lot of people in positions of authority came to my house when I was a kid and I shook hands with all of them. Of course I also bowed to them, but I shook hands with all of them. I also shook hands with the elderly people that came to my house, including my grandmother.
However, there were certain encounters that stuck in my mind. I remember a time that a new official was appointed to a certain position. My neighbour’s family was very influential in the institution that the official had just been appointed to head and so he paid a courtesy visit to their house and I was in their house on that day. They introduced me to him as **** son. He looked happy to see me, but something happened that stuck in my mind. I extended my hand for a handshake and there was a momentary look of surprise on his face. It lasted for less than half a second, but I noticed it. He said, “You want to shake the ****” (he mentioned his new title) and then he shook my hand.
There was another encounter that I remember. It was kind of a family event. I got to a certain house and the woman of the house was greeting everybody at the door. I bowed and shook hands with her as I greeted her. I could see a look of absolute shock on her face as I shook hands with her. Much later, my sister whispered to me, “Did you see how shocked she looked when you shook hands with her”?
You see, in Yoruba culture, it is quite unusual for a much younger person to shake hands with a much older person. The younger person is expected to prostrate, stoop, bow, kneel or curtsey. The younger person will only shake the older person’s hand if the older person extends his hand for a handshake.
Similarly, it is unusual for a person in a much lower position in an organisation to shake hands with someone in a much higher positions/someone in a position of authority except if the person in a higher position extends his hand for a handshake.
Many Muslim women do not shake hands with men that are not related to them. This can be awkward for a man who extends his hand to shake a woman. Therefore, many men do not extend their hands for a handshake except the woman extends her hand first.
Think about it the way that you would think about a hug. Would you hug a woman that you’ve just met for the first time? Would you hug a woman that you’ve just met for the first time if she extends her hands for a hug? You would probably respect the woman’s space and only hug her if she extends her hands for a hug, right?
Read this https://medium.com/@hana.jafar09/why-you-should-ask-before-hugging-someone-7825f503ac06
Obasanjo
I was shocked when there was a furore about whether President Buhari shook hands with women, because President Olusegun Obasanjo had observed this practice in a very extreme manner and yet nobody complained.
I noticed that President Olusegun Obasanjo never shook hands with women who wore hijabs, even when the women extended their hands for a handshake. I noticed this for the first time during a national honours award ceremony. An honouree extended her hand for a handshake, but President Obasanjo clasped both of his hands together in front of his chest, instead of shaking hands with her. I later noticed that he did this to any woman that either wore a hijab or was from the far north, even if the woman was Christian and even if the woman extended her hand for a handshake. Yet nobody complained.
Buhari New ministers were inaugurated in 2015 and an incident during the inauguration ceremony led to the ridiculous claim that President Buhari does not shake hands with women.
The protocol was that, after being sworn in, the minister would sign the register and then shake hands with President Buhari while smiling for the camera. It was Kemi Adeosun’s turn to shake hands with Buhari. Being a Yoruba woman, she waited for President Buhari, who is older and in a higher position of authority, to extend his hand for a handshake. President Buhari, being a northern muslim, waited for Kemi Adeosun, who is a woman, to extend her hand for a handshake. Therefore, because neither of them extended their hand first, there was no handshake.
People picked up on this and said that President Buhari does not shake hands with women and then it became a self-fulfilling prophesy. Other women, because they had heard that Buhari did not shake hands with women, did not extend their hands for a handshake when they met him and therefore, the rumours that Buhari did not shake hands with women continued.
Some people said that "Buhari's refusal to shake hands with women was proof that he was a religious extremist, a bigot and that he wanted to Islamise Nigeria".
I knew that this was just complete nonsense. How did I know? The musician, Onyeka Onwenu was a supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan and he appointed her to head an agency (I’ve forgotten the name of the agency). The members of the board of the agency went to meet and congratulate President Buhari soon after he was sworn in. This was before ministers were inaugurated. President Buhari shook hands with Onyeka Onwenu at that event.
Besides, I had seen Buhari shake hands with women when he was a military head of state in the mid-1980s.
President Buhari arrived the International Conference Centre and there was a line of people that were waiting to receive him. He shook hands with the people on the line, but Mrs Tinubu did not extend her hand for a handshake. Instead she curtsied and said, "Good morning sir". President Buhari looked at her and said, "Madam ****" (the second word was inaudible) and she smiled. He then asked, "How are you?" and she replied, "Very well sir".
Politics › Re: Fact Check: Does President Buhari Shake Hands With Women? by naptu2(op): 12:58pm On Apr 26, 2021
