{"id":51692,"date":"2018-10-12T17:29:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51692"},"modified":"2018-10-12T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:29:32","slug":"whoever-obasanjo-endorses-becomes-nigerias-president-fani-kayode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51692","title":{"rendered":"Whoever Obasanjo endorses becomes Nigeria&#8217;s president &#8211; Fani-Kayode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Fani-Kayode-Koko-ng.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has observed that whoever secures the endorsement of former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, ahead of a presidential election, always wins.<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode, in a tweet on Friday, went as far back as 1999 to prove his stance.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, former leaders like Musa Yar\u2019Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and even the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, came into power because Obasanjo took sides with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOBJ endorsed himself in 1999: he won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOBJ endorsed himself in 2003: he won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOBJ endorsed Yar\u2019Adua in 2007: he won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOBJ endorsed GEJ in 2011: he won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOBJ endorsed Buhari in 2015: he won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOBJ has endorsed Atiku in 2019: he will win,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo, on Thursday, endorsed his former deputy, Atiku Abubakar, who is running for the 2019 presidency on the platform of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP).\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has observed that whoever secures the endorsement of former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, ahead of a presidential election, always wins. Fani-Kayode, in a tweet on Friday, went as far back as 1999 to prove his stance. According to him, former leaders like Musa Yar\u2019Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and even the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29884,"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":[3,4],"tags":[5604],"class_list":["post-51692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-femi-fani-kayode"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51692","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=51692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}