{"id":64671,"date":"2018-11-26T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64671"},"modified":"2018-11-26T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:09:30","slug":"jonathan-lauds-atikus-contributions-to-nigerias-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64671","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan lauds Atiku&#8217;s contributions to Nigeria&#8217;s development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518827885_209_jonathan.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former President Goodluck Jonathan has described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as a man of great courage.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan made this remark while congratulating the Waziri of Adamawa on the occasion of his 72nd birthday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued yesterday by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze, the former president stated that Atiku made significant contributions to the growth and development of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He prayed for God\u2019s blessings to enable the former vice-president do more for the progress of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads, \u201cI wish to, most sincerely, congratulate you on your 72nd birthday. You have every cause to be thankful to God for a long life and a fulfilling experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are a man of great courage, wisdom, and dedication; all of which you have deployed in service to the nation and humanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough deep and long-lasting engagements in politics, industry and national integration, you have made outstanding contributions to the growth and development of our nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour enormous experience, good health, and sound intellect are God\u2019s blessings to enable you to rededicate yourself to the effort to build a country of our collective dreams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI join your family and other well-wishers to wish you more productive years in the service of our fatherland.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Goodluck Jonathan has described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as a man of great courage. Jonathan made this remark while congratulating the Waziri of Adamawa on the occasion of his 72nd birthday. In a statement issued yesterday by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze, the former president stated that Atiku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11147,"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":[3,4],"tags":[4149,1048,4384],"class_list":["post-64671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2019-election","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-gudluck-jonathan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64671","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=64671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}