{"id":15359,"date":"2019-02-14T11:43:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15359"},"modified":"2019-02-14T11:43:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:43:31","slug":"northern-algon-endorses-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15359","title":{"rendered":"Northern ALGON endorses Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RELEASE<\/strong><br \/>\nBy <strong>Laolu Akande<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity<br \/>\nOffice of the Vice President<br \/>\nALGON FORUM ENDORSES BUHARI FOR PRESIDENT<br \/>\nThe Presidential election coming up this weekend is an opportunity for Nigerians to endorse and validate the activities of the Buhari presidency, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.<br \/>\nProf. Osinbajo made the observation when members of the Northern Forum of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, announced the endorsement of the Buhari presidential ticket for Saturday\u2019s Presidential Polls.<br \/>\nThis endorsement was announced by the leadership of the forum at a Presidential Villa meeting last night where President Muhammadu Buhari was represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.<br \/>\nProf. Osinbajo said \u201cwe see the election as an opportunity for Nigerians to endorse and validate all we have done. We are very confident that the Almighty God has seen the honesty and integrity that\u00a0Mr.President has brought to bear on the task, and that would be rewarded.\u201d<br \/>\nIn his remarks, Hon. Mohammed Ali, Chairman of ALGON Northern Forum, who led the delegation, disclosed that the association is impressed by the Buhari Administration\u2019s commitment to the rule of law and the Federal Government\u2019s support for Local governments in the country.<br \/>\nHe said the endorsement of the group is borne out of the successful performance of the administration in the last three years.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will mobilize to support the Buhari\/Osinbajo ticket, and you are going to win the election by the grace of God, \u201c Ali told the Vice President.<br \/>\nAlso speaking at the meeting, Hon Mohammed Abubakar, the Kaduna State ALGON Chairman reaffirmed the group\u2019s support, saying \u201c your administration has recorded tremendous achievements in the areas of security, economic diversification among others.\u201d<br \/>\nHe recalled how the FG helped in settling backlogs of workers salary in several States and Local Government Areas of the country. He also cited the reduction in the price of Fertilizers and its ready availability to farmers.<br \/>\nThe ALGON delegation then urged the Buhari Administration to continue to press for Local Government autonomy after it has won the second term elections.<br \/>\nWelcoming the delegation earlier, the Vice President expressed sincere gratitude to the ALGON group. According to him, \u201clet me express our sincere gratitude for your commitment to the Federal Government and also to the President\u2019s candidacy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RELEASE By Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Office of the Vice President ALGON FORUM ENDORSES BUHARI FOR PRESIDENT The Presidential election coming up this weekend is an opportunity for Nigerians to endorse and validate the activities of the Buhari presidency, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359","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=15359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}