{"id":73922,"date":"2018-12-29T10:37:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T09:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73922"},"modified":"2018-12-29T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T09:38:28","slug":"shehu-shagari-jonathan-speaks-on-death-of-nigerias-ex-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73922","title":{"rendered":"Shehu Shagari: Jonathan speaks on death of Nigeria’s ex-president"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has condoled the family of Nigeria\u2019s Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari.<\/p>\n

Jonathan described Shagari as a nation builder who ensured a good relationship between the North and Southern part of the country.<\/p>\n

In a statement signed by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze, the former President stated that the late President was a patriot who placed service to humanity and fatherland above personal interest.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cLate President Shagari was a very nice man with a clean heart. As a President he was humble, sincere and selfless in service.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was in deed a true democrat who left no one in doubt about his loyalty to his country, love for peace, desire for unity and vision for a greater Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cShagari was an exceptional leader and exemplary statesman whose modesty, commitment to common good and deep sense of patriotism will continue to inspire many generations of Nigerians.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will be remembered as a teacher, parliamentarian and President whose model of service was anchored on diligence, broad-mindedness and humility.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has condoled the family of Nigeria\u2019s Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari. Jonathan described Shagari as a nation builder who ensured a good relationship between the North and Southern part of the country. In a statement signed by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze, the former President stated that the late President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73846,"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":[235,1206],"class_list":["post-73922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-goodluck-jonathan","tag-shehu-shagari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922","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=73922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}