{"id":58276,"date":"2018-11-04T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=58276"},"modified":"2018-11-04T00:33:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T23:33:11","slug":"2019-gov-el-rufai-insulted-kaduna-christians-by-picking-muslim-running-mate-fani-kayode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=58276","title":{"rendered":"2019: Gov El-Rufai insulted Kaduna Christians by picking Muslim running mate &#8211; Fani-Kayode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fani-Kayode-insists-NWC-sabotaged-Jonathans-campaign-threatens-to-release-proofs.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Saturday said the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai insulted Christians in the state by picking a Muslim as his running mate for 2019 election.<\/p>\n<p>Governor El-Rufai, a Muslim, had on Friday announced that he will be running for second term with Hadiza Balarabe, another Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former minister described El-Rufai\u2019s action as divisive and insulting.<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain explained that the Governor\u2019s action was wrong because 50 per cent of people in the state are Christians.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Fani-Kayode wrote: \u201cIt is wrong, divisive, dangerous, provocative and insulting for Nasir El Rufai to field a Muslim\/Muslim ticket in the governorship election in a state like Kaduna in which 50% of the people are Christian and in which thousands of Christians were butchered over the last 3 years.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Saturday said the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai insulted Christians in the state by picking a Muslim as his running mate for 2019 election. Governor El-Rufai, a Muslim, had on Friday announced that he will be running for second term with Hadiza Balarabe, another Muslim. However, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9293,"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":[5730,5604],"class_list":["post-58276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-femi-fani-kayode"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58276","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=58276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}