{"id":13672,"date":"2023-05-29T10:32:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T10:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13672"},"modified":"2023-05-29T16:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:37:56","slug":"tinubu-sworn-in-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13672","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Sworn In As President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President-elect, Bola Tinubu and Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima have both been sworn in as President and Vice President of Nigeria, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Oath of Office was administered by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kayode Ariwoola, on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tinubu, a former Senator and governor of Lagos State was declared the winner of the February 2023 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The candidate of the All Progressives Congress polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, who polled a total of 6,984,520 votes in the election while Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details\u00a0later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect, Bola Tinubu and Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima have both been sworn in as President and Vice President of Nigeria, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6859,7042],"class_list":["post-13672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-may-29th","tag-president-bola-ahmed-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672"}],"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=13672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13674,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672\/revisions\/13674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}