{"id":4134,"date":"2015-03-31T17:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2015-03-31T17:16:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:16:37","slug":"nigeria-opposition-declares-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/nigeria-opposition-declares-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria opposition declares victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mohammedu-Buhari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4135\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mohammedu-Buhari.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammedu Buhari\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Nigeria\u2019s opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) declared victory in the presidential election on Tuesday, saying Africa\u2019s most populous nation was \u201cwitnessing history.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the first time in Nigeria that a sitting government will be voted out of power using purely democratic means,\u201d APC spokesman Lai Mohammed told Reuters at the house in the capital where party leader Muhammdu Buhari was watching the results come in. \u201cThe people of Nigeria have taken over.\u201d<br \/>\nHe added that the APC had no reason to doubt that President Goodluck Jonathan would concede defeat.<br \/>\n\u201cHe said several times that he would relinquish power if he was voted out in a free and fair election,\u201d Mohammed said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/nigeria-opposition-declares-victory\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) declared victory in the presidential election on Tuesday, saying Africa\u2019s most populous nation was \u201cwitnessing history.\u201d \u201cThis is the first time in Nigeria that a sitting government will be voted out of power using purely democratic means,\u201d APC spokesman Lai Mohammed told Reuters at the house in the capital &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}