{"id":66599,"date":"2018-12-03T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66599"},"modified":"2018-12-03T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:50:38","slug":"buhari-reacts-to-death-of-george-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66599","title":{"rendered":"Buhari reacts to death of George Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Muhammadu Buhari has joined world leaders in mourning the death of former president of the United States, George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n

The 41st President of the USA died on Saturday at age of 94. <\/p>\n

Buhari, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, described Bush as a man who lived a life of service to country and humanity.<\/p>\n

He described Bush\u2019s death as a loss to the entire world, not just America.<\/p>\n

The statement read: \u201cPresident Buhari sends condolences to the government and people of the United States, family of the 41st President and all political associates of the great leader, whose legacies continue to inspire and attract encomiums across the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President believes the passing of George H.W. Bush is a loss to the entire world, not just America, especially the many people he inspired.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Buhari extols the late President\u2019s love for his family and country, which remains legendary as clearly seen in the way his children have taken up leadership roles and are steadily breeding new generation of great thinkers and leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President prays for God\u2019s comfort on the mourning nation, the family of the nonagenarian, and a peaceful rest for his soul.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari has joined world leaders in mourning the death of former president of the United States, George H.W. Bush. The 41st President of the USA died on Saturday at age of 94. Buhari, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, described Bush as a man who lived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23184,"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],"tags":[2658,41,8414,8406],"class_list":["post-66599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-george-bush","tag-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66599","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=66599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}