{"id":15896,"date":"2019-03-05T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15896"},"modified":"2019-03-05T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:09:00","slug":"god-willing-i-will-retire-to-daura-after-second-and-final-term-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15896","title":{"rendered":"God willing, I will retire to Daura after second and final term &#8211; Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy <strong>Garba Shehu<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity)<br \/>\nPRESIDENT BUHARI URGES TRADITIONAL RULERS TO SUPPORT FIGHT AGAINST CRIMINALITY<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday welcomed traditional rulers in the country to the \u201cNext Level\u201d, urging them to be prepared to play a crucial role in the prevention and detection of criminal activities in their domains.<br \/>\nSpeaking while receiving members of the National Council of Traditional Rulers led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, at State House, Abuja, the President noted that involving the royal fathers had become necessary in view of the deep knowledge of their localities.<br \/>\nAccording to him, \u201cYou know all the families who harbour criminals and you know those who produce respectable individuals. You know the weaknesses of our society. We need your support to consolidate our achievements.\u201d<br \/>\nPresident Buhari listed several significant efforts by his administration to enhance national security while emphasising the overall need for stability in the country.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat we need now is your support. No government can serve creditably without your support. We will always count on your support,\u201d he told the traditional rulers.<br \/>\nThe President also welcomed the royal fathers to his \u201csecond and final term, at the end of which I will, God willing, go to Daura and settle down.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman of the Council, told President Buhari that the body \u201con behalf of all the Traditional Rulers in Nigeria, is here to congratulate you on your re-election as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.\u201d<br \/>\nUrging \u201call Nigerians to accept the election result as the will of God,\u201d the Sultan assured the President of the traditional rulers\u2019 \u201ccontinued unflinching support in your laudable projects, particularly your government\u2019s cardinal objectives of fighting corruption, containing insecurity, generally sanitizing the governance machinery, entrenching discipline, hard work and peaceful co-existence amongst the citizenry.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Co-Chairman of the Council and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, assured President Buhari that their members would work very closely with his administration to fight criminal activities.<br \/>\nThe Ooni urged the re-elected Nigerian leader to be a President for the whole nation and father to all citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity) PRESIDENT BUHARI URGES TRADITIONAL RULERS TO SUPPORT FIGHT AGAINST CRIMINALITY President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday welcomed traditional rulers in the country to the \u201cNext Level\u201d, urging them to be prepared to play a crucial role in the prevention and detection of criminal activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15896","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\/15896","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=15896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}