{"id":11179,"date":"2018-08-04T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2018-08-04T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T16:58:25","slug":"11179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11179","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth crowd solidarises with APC in Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<strong>NAN<\/strong><br \/>\n.Governor Aminu Tambuwal, who abandoned the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday, lost the popularity contest between him and his former godfather, Senator Aliyu Wammako, at least in the eyes of Twitterati, following the unprecedented crowd that received the Senator and his party in Sokoto today.<br \/>\nSokoto was literally shut down as the surging crowd, came out in a show of solidarity with Wammako, President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress.<br \/>\nImmediately the plane carrying the senator landed at the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport, motorcyclists ran onto the tarmac to offer a guard of honour.<br \/>\nWammako acknowledges the massive crowd at the airport<br \/>\nAnd from the airport to the town, traffic moved at snail speed.<br \/>\nAbu Bunza, who monitored Wammako\u2019s arrival wrote on Twitter: \u201cI knew Wamakko\u2019s homecoming will be mad today. Those that were busy celebrating Tambuwal\u2019s defection know nothing about Sokoto\u2019s politics\u201d.<br \/>\nHe was right. One Twitter user actually used the word \u2018mad\u2019 to describe the crowd reaction and enthusiasm to the APC in the city.<br \/>\nOne of the harvests of the rally was the switch to the APC by a former minister of sports, Yusuf Suleiman, who was a PDP governorship aspirant in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0NAN .Governor Aminu Tambuwal, who abandoned the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday, lost the popularity contest between him and his former godfather, Senator Aliyu Wammako, at least in the eyes of Twitterati, following the unprecedented crowd that received the Senator and his party in Sokoto today. Sokoto was literally shut down as the surging crowd, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}