{"id":15699,"date":"2019-02-27T15:18:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15699"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:18:17","slug":"buhari-gets-certificate-of-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15699","title":{"rendered":"Buhari gets Certificate of Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday in Abuja presented a Certificate of Return to President Muhammadu Buhari, winner of the Feb. 23 Presidential election.<br \/>\nThe certificate was presented to the President by the Returning Officer of the election, who is also the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.<br \/>\nYakubu first invited the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who in turn invited the President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to sign and collect the Certificate of Return.<br \/>\nINEC had earlier today (Wednesday) declared President Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the 2019 presidential election.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the event, the president assured Nigerians that they would soon see \u201ca country moving to the `Next Level\u2019 as the APC-led administration consolidates on its achievements\u201d.<br \/>\nPresident Buhari also pledged to continue to engage all parties as his administration would be operating an open government for the general progress of the country.<br \/>\nHe, however, vowed to continue the fight against corruption, saying accumulation of public wealth would not be tolerated.<br \/>\nThe president, who thanked God for the electoral victory, also reiterated his call on all APC supporters not to gloat or humiliate the opposition, saying \u201cvictory is enough reward for your efforts\u201d.<br \/>\nPersonalities at the event included APC State Governors, Cabinet Ministers, Security Chiefs, Heads of Para-Military agencies, Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi.<br \/>\nOthers were the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Amb. Ahmed Rufa\u2019I, presidential aides and political appointees as well as the chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole.<br \/>\nThe National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and family members of both the President and the Vice-President also witnessed the event.<br \/>\nBy <strong>The Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday in Abuja presented a Certificate of Return to President Muhammadu Buhari, winner of the Feb. 23 Presidential election. The certificate was presented to the President by the Returning Officer of the election, who is also the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Yakubu first invited the Vice-President, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15699","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\/15699","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=15699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}