{"id":61358,"date":"2025-02-16T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61358"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:07:27","slug":"65-tinubu-commends-el-rufais-contributions-to-nigerias-governance-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/16\/65-tinubu-commends-el-rufais-contributions-to-nigerias-governance-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"@65 Tinubu commends El-Rufai&#8217;s contributions to Nigeria&#8217;s governance, democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has lauded former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on his 65th birthday, commending his significant contributions to Nigeria&#8217;s governance and democratic development.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Sunday, Tinubu highlighted El-Rufai&#8217;s roles as a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and his instrumental efforts in the party&#8217;s electoral successes in 2015, 2019, and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The President also acknowledged El-Rufai&#8217;s tenure as Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Minister of the Federal<\/p>\n<p>Capital Territory, and his eight-year service as Kaduna State Governor.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu praised El-Rufai&#8217;s dedication to mentoring younger generations and his unwavering commitment to national service, wishing him continued health and strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi President Bola Tinubu has lauded former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on his 65th birthday, commending his significant contributions to Nigeria&#8217;s governance and democratic development. In a statement released on Sunday, Tinubu highlighted El-Rufai&#8217;s roles as a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and his instrumental efforts in the party&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61358","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\/61358","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61360,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61358\/revisions\/61360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}