{"id":13629,"date":"2023-05-25T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T18:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2023-05-25T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T18:35:37","slug":"bola-ahmed-tinubu-gcfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13629","title":{"rendered":"I Won\u2019t Disappoint Nigerians, Tinubu Assures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The President-elect Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, in Abuja, said he will not disappoint the trust conferred upon him by the President Muhammadu Buhari and millions of Nigerians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He also affirmed that he understands the magnitude of the honour conferred upon him and the corresponding task ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tinubu made the promise in his acceptance speech after he was conferred with the National Honour of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI understand the magnitude of the honour conferred on me today and the task ahead. Nigerians deserve no less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYou (Buhari) have charted the course and I shall not disappoint you,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thursday\u2019s conferment makes Tinubu the 16th person to hold the GCFR Honour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Those before him are Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Shehu Shagari, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ibrahim Babangida, Ernest Shonekan, Sani Abacha, Moshood Abiola, Umaru Yar\u2019Adua and Goodluck Jonathan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Others who have been conferred with the title include British Monarch Queen Elizabeth II, South Africa\u2019s Nelson Mandela and former Libyan Leader, Muammar Gaddafi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Buhari also conferred vice president-elect Kashim Shettima. with the honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier, he handed three key transition documents to the president-elect in line with Executive Order 14 mandating the transition council to issue handover notes containing, amongst other things, proposed policy direction to the incoming administration.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President-elect Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, in Abuja, said he will not disappoint the trust conferred upon him by the President Muhammadu Buhari and millions of Nigerians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5361,6990],"class_list":["post-13629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bola-ahmed-tinubu","tag-gcfr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13631,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions\/13631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}