{"id":94451,"date":"2025-07-13T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=94451"},"modified":"2025-07-13T22:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:00:47","slug":"obi-mourns-buhari-says-he-was-a-disciplined-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=94451","title":{"rendered":"Obi mourns Buhari, says he was a disciplined man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Labour Party 2023 Presidential Candidate Peter Obi has described the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari, who passed today, as a disciplined man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Writing in his X handle, Obi said &#8220;I have just received the shocking news of the passing of former President Muhammadu Buhari in London. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8220;His death provides a solemn moment, not just for his family and close associates, but for our nation as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8216;President Buhari has always comported himself in a dignified manner as a leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8220;When I met him during the electioneering, he received me warmly and spoke like a statesman appreciating my effort and how I had impacted the youths, not minding that he was from the opposite party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8221; He did his best for a nation that gave him the rare opportunity of ruling it twice as a military Head of State and as an elected President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8220;To his wife, children, extended family, and to all Nigerians, I extend my deepest condolences. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8216;May Almighty Allah, Most Gracious and Most Merciful, forgive President Buhari\u2019s shortcomings, reward his efforts in service to the nation, and grant him Aljannatul Firdaus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8220;And for our dear country Nigeria, may this moment remind all of us in leadership that life is fleeting, we must serve with sincerity, compassion, and a deep sense of accountability. May we build a Nigeria where justice, unity, and peace prevail?&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Ameen.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250713_224342_167.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Party 2023 Presidential Candidate Peter Obi has described the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari, who passed today, as a disciplined man. Writing in his X handle, Obi said &#8220;I have just received the shocking news of the passing of former President Muhammadu Buhari in London. &#8220;His death provides a solemn moment, not just for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":94453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94451","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=94451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}