{"id":7923,"date":"2022-05-09T23:07:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T23:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7923"},"modified":"2022-05-09T23:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T23:07:53","slug":"senate-president-lawan-picks-apc-presidential-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7923","title":{"rendered":"Senate President Lawan Picks APC Presidential Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Ahead of Tuesday\u2019s deadline for the sale of nomination and expression of interest forms, there has been a rush by aspirants as Senate President Ahmad Lawan, obtained his copy on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The International Conference Centre, Abuja, was agog with activities as several aspirants vying for various electoral offices stormed the venue to obtain their forms at the last minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some political associates of the Senate President were at the ICC to obtain forms saying Nigeria needs a \u201cNigerian president\u201d and not one given to ethnic tendencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Leader of the group, Sam Nkire, told journalists that \u201cWe are not here on our own, we have his backing. Even though friends and brothers contributed to purchase this form for him but he has given us the go-ahead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Tuesday\u2019s deadline for the sale of nomination and expression of interest forms, there has been a rush by aspirants as Senate President Ahmad Lawan, obtained his copy on Monday in Abuja. The International Conference Centre, Abuja, was agog with activities as several aspirants vying for various electoral offices stormed the venue to obtain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4735,4380,2325],"class_list":["post-7923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ahmad-lawan","tag-apc-presidential-form","tag-senate-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923"}],"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=7923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7925,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions\/7925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}