{"id":56709,"date":"2018-10-30T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=56709"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T12:01:13","slug":"army-vs-shiites-why-jonathan-is-the-last-democrat-to-rule-nigeria-fayose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=56709","title":{"rendered":"Army vs Shiites: Why Jonathan is the last democrat to rule Nigeria &#8211; Fayose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has described former president Gooluck Jonathan as the last democrat to rule Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this while condemning the alleged shooting of Shiite members by men of the Nigerian Army in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, the former governor recalled how Jonathan\u2019s convoy was stoned at Bauchi and nobody was shot as a result of the assault.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered if there was no civilised way to deal with the clash between Shiite and soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisturbing news about shooting of protesting Shi\u2019ite Muslims. Don\u2019t we have civilised way of addressing protests by citizens of Nigeria?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this country, convoy of a sitting president was attacked with stones in Bauchi, no one was shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod bless Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the last democrat to rule Nigeria,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-618465\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Army-vs-Shiites-Why-Jonathan-is-the-last-democrat-to-rule-Nigeria-Fayose.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"535\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has described former president Gooluck Jonathan as the last democrat to rule Nigeria. He stated this while condemning the alleged shooting of Shiite members by men of the Nigerian Army in Abuja. In a series of tweets, the former governor recalled how Jonathan\u2019s convoy was stoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43083,"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":[6336],"class_list":["post-56709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ayo-fayose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56709","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=56709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}