{"id":193744,"date":"2020-02-14T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193744"},"modified":"2020-02-14T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:49:16","slug":"bayelsa-bukola-saraki-congratulates-diri-advises-pdp-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193744","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa: Bukola Saraki congratulates Diri, advises PDP members"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki has congratulated Governor-elect, Douye Diri, for his victory at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that following the nullification of the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, David Lyon and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo\u2019s election, the Independent National Electoral Commission( INEC) on Friday declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Douye Diri, winner of the Bayelsa governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>INEC chairman, Prof Yakubu Mahmud said the PDP fulfilled more than 25 percent of the lawful votes.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, Saraki on his Twitter page appealed to PDP members to take advantage of the opportunity to pursue and achieve genuine reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201dI congratulate Senator Duoye Diri and Senator Lawrence Ehrudjakpor on being declared as the Governor-Elect and Deputy Governor-Elect of Bayelsa State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d I pray Allah will give them the wisdom to deliver on the wishes and aspirations of all Bayelsans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dLast year, I served as Chairman of the Committee set up by @OfficialPDPNig to pursue reconciliation within our ranks in Bayelsa. I make this appeal knowing that only genuine reconciliation will give us the foundation to fully deliver on our campaign promises to the Bayelsan people.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki has congratulated Governor-elect, Douye Diri, for his victory at the Supreme Court. Recall that following the nullification of the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, David Lyon and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo\u2019s election, the Independent National Electoral Commission( INEC) on Friday declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Douye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193745,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[14289,3281,14290,242],"class_list":["post-193744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-diri","tag-saraki","tag-seconds","tag-supreme-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193744","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=193744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}