{"id":70864,"date":"2025-07-17T13:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70864"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:17:16","slug":"akpabio-leads-lawmakers-to-daura-over-buharis-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/17\/akpabio-leads-lawmakers-to-daura-over-buharis-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio Leads Lawmakers to Daura Over Buhari\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Omoniyi David<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday led a National Assembly delegation to Daura, Katsina State, to condole with Governor Dikko Radda over the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio described Buhari as a patriot and man of integrity who served Nigeria selflessly.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed their earlier attempt to visit was delayed due to flight challenges caused by airport closure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe returned today to honour a man who gave everything for Nigeria,\u201d Akpabio said, recalling Buhari\u2019s humility and discipline, including how the former president insisted the Faculty of Law at Federal University Dutsin-Ma be named after him instead of Akpabio.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Radda expressed deep sorrow, describing Buhari as a father figure and mentor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis loss is deeply personal. He always urged me to fear God and lead with justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Omoniyi David Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday led a National Assembly delegation to Daura, Katsina State, to condole with Governor Dikko Radda over the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari. Akpabio described Buhari as a patriot and man of integrity who served Nigeria selflessly. He revealed their earlier attempt to visit was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":70869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70864","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70870,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70864\/revisions\/70870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}