{"id":1203,"date":"2023-08-09T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:02:04","slug":"just-in-tinubu-wike-el-rufai-in-close-door-meetin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/08\/09\/just-in-tinubu-wike-el-rufai-in-close-door-meetin\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Tinubu, Wike, El-Rufai in Close Door Meetin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idowu Patrick<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with former governors of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The two former governors are ministerial nominees.<\/p>\n<p>However, while Wike was screened and confirmed by the Senate, the nation\u2019s upper legislative chamber did not confirm el-Rufai because of an alleged security report.<\/p>\n<p>The former governors arrived the State House separately.<\/p>\n<p>While Wike came at about 1:40p.m., el-Rufai entered the presidential wing of Aso Rock at 2p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sources at the Presidential Villa hinted that efforts are being made to ensure that the Senate confirms Mallam el-Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>Details later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idowu Patrick President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with former governors of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The two former governors are ministerial nominees. However, while Wike was screened and confirmed by the Senate, the nation\u2019s upper legislative chamber did not confirm el-Rufai because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}