{"id":8856,"date":"2022-06-10T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2022-06-10T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:10:50","slug":"tinubus-running-mate-party-chieftain-warn-against-muslim-muslim-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8856","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu\u2019s Running Mate: Party Chieftain Warn Against Muslim\/Muslim Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has warned the All Progressives Congress against picking a Muslim as running mate of Tinubu, who is also a Muslim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lawal pointed out that Nigerians were still conscious of ethno-religious factors in politics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to him, Tinubu would have been running mate to the President Muhammadu Buhari when the latter became the candidate of the APC in 2014 but for the discouragement of a Muslim-Muslim ticket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ex-SGF, issued the warning while speaking on Politics Today, a current affairs programme on Channels Television, on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has warned the All Progressives Congress against picking a Muslim as running mate of Tinubu, who is also a Muslim. Lawal pointed out that Nigerians were still conscious of ethno-religious factors in politics. According to him, Tinubu would have been running mate to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4841,5139,5138],"class_list":["post-8856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-muslim-muslim-ticket","tag-party-chieftain","tag-tinubus-running-mate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856"}],"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=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}