{"id":3851,"date":"2023-10-27T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2023-10-27T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:01:51","slug":"gej-visits-to-aso-rock-congratulates-president-tinubu-on-supreme-court-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/27\/gej-visits-to-aso-rock-congratulates-president-tinubu-on-supreme-court-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"GEJ Visits to Aso Rock, Congratulates President Tinubu on Supreme Court Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, paid a visit to the Aso Villa on Friday to convey his congratulations to the newly announced President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a notable display of statesmanship and unity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling, which upheld Tinubu&#8217;s victory in the presidential election, precedes this visit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The legal battle for the presidency had been a protracted one, with the LP Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, contending that President Tinubu had falsified his election results and engaged in electoral misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Months of courtroom deliberations and back-and-forth ensued before the Supreme Court ultimately settled the matter by upholding Tinubu&#8217;s victory and declaring him as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan&#8217;s visit to the Aso Villa serves as a testament to the spirit of democratic sportsmanship and national unity, where former leaders acknowledge and congratulate the new leadership, thereby upholding the principles of peaceful transition and respect for the judiciary&#8217;s decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, paid a visit to the Aso Villa on Friday to convey his congratulations to the newly announced President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a notable display of statesmanship and unity. &nbsp; The Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling, which upheld Tinubu&#8217;s victory in the presidential election, precedes this visit. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3855,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}