{"id":127999,"date":"2019-06-19T10:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127999"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:46:55","slug":"atiku-reacts-to-re-election-of-can-president-ayokule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127999","title":{"rendered":"Atiku reacts to re-election of CAN president, Ayokule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Atiku-reacts-to-APCs-claim-at-Election-Tribunal-that-hes-not-Nigerian.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former vice-president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has congratulated Rev. Dr. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle on his re-election as President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that Ayokunle got 59 votes to defeat the runner up, Rev. Caleb Solomon-Ahima, President, Fellowship of Christian Churches in Nigeria, TEKAN, who got 44 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Ahima, according to the CAN constitution, becomes the Vice President of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Ayokunle was born on Jan. 25, 1957 and hails from Isheke, Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Atiku on Twitter wrote, \u201dCongratulations, Rev. (Dr.) Samson Ayokunle on your re-election as President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pray for God\u2019s wisdom &amp; divine direction to you in the running of the affairs of CAN and the interface of the association with the rest of the Nigerian society.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former vice-president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has congratulated Rev. Dr. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle on his re-election as President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). DAILY POST had reported that Ayokunle got 59 votes to defeat the runner up, Rev. Caleb Solomon-Ahima, President, Fellowship of Christian Churches in Nigeria, TEKAN, who got 44 votes. Ahima, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,2677],"tags":[2658,1048,11659],"class_list":["post-127999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-religious","tag-a","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-ayokunle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}