{"id":146695,"date":"2019-08-25T19:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=146695"},"modified":"2019-08-25T19:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T18:26:36","slug":"why-sultan-of-sokoto-is-important-to-nigeria-gbajabiamila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=146695","title":{"rendered":"Why Sultan of Sokoto is important to Nigeria &#8211; Gbajabiamila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/How-well-best-Saraki-Dogara-led-8th-National-Assembly-Gbajabiamila.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has felicitated with the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammad Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III as he marks his 63rd birthday anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the green chamber of the National Assembly said the monarch was a key figure in Nigeria because he promotes peace.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Sultan has been providing good leadership not just for the Muslim Ummah but for the country at large since his ascendance to the exalted seat of the Sultan of Sokoto.<\/p>\n<p>Gbajabiamila said the Sultan, who doubles as the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), the leader of the Jama\u2019atu Nasril Islam (JNI) and the co-chairman of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC), is indeed an embodiment of peace for all Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to therefore use this medium to heartily congratulate His Eminence as he marks his 63 birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a leader, the Sultan has been up and doing and has never failed Nigerians in any way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is to his credit that he is known as someone who is constantly working towards peaceful coexistence among Nigerians everywhere,\u201d the Speaker said.<\/p>\n<p>Gbajabiamila prayed Allah Almighty to continue to grant the Sultan good health and wisdom for him to carry on with his good leadership in the country.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has felicitated with the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammad Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III as he marks his 63rd birthday anniversary. The leader of the green chamber of the National Assembly said the monarch was a key figure in Nigeria because he promotes peace. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129551,"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":[3,2677],"tags":[8017,356],"class_list":["post-146695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religious","tag-femi-gbajabiamila","tag-sultan-of-sokoto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146695","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=146695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}