{"id":68248,"date":"2024-01-12T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68248"},"modified":"2024-01-12T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:55:38","slug":"the-eight-friday-celebrants-at-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68248","title":{"rendered":"The eight Friday celebrants at the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Deola Olukande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In all, eight men smiled victoriously out of the Supreme Court complex in the Th\u0155ee-Arm Zone of Abuja on Friday. They may be on their way to Umuahia, Bauchi, Calabar, Abakaliki, Kano, Ikeja, Jos, and Gusau to the wide and open hands of well-wishers and supporters, while eager-to-spend and excited civil servants use scarce state resources to celebrate their victories.<\/p>\n<p>The men retained\u00a0 their seats as governors in eight states of the Federation.<\/p>\n<p>They are:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Governor Alex Otti (LP) &#8211; Abia<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Governor Bala Mohammed (PDP) &#8211; Bauchi<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Governor Bassey Otu (APC) &#8211; Cross River<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Governor Francis Nwifuru (APC) &#8211; Ebonyi<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Governor Abba Yusuf (NNPP) &#8211; Kano<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Governor Sanwo-Olu (APC) &#8211; Lagos<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Governor Caleb Mutfwang (PDP) &#8211; Plateau<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Governor Dauda Lawal (PDP) &#8211; Zamfara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Deola Olukande In all, eight men smiled victoriously out of the Supreme Court complex in the Th\u0155ee-Arm Zone of Abuja on Friday. They may be on their way to Umuahia, Bauchi, Calabar, Abakaliki, Kano, Ikeja, Jos, and Gusau to the wide and open hands of well-wishers and supporters, while eager-to-spend and excited civil servants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":55954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[6458,47,48],"class_list":["post-68248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","category-news","tag-celebration","tag-governors","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68248","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=68248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}