{"id":62547,"date":"2019-05-31T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62547"},"modified":"2019-05-31T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:36:37","slug":"nigerias-muhammadu-buhari-sworn-in-for-second-term-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/nigerias-muhammadu-buhari-sworn-in-for-second-term-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Muhammadu Buhari sworn in for second term as president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Muhammadu Buhari has been sworn in for a second term as Nigeria&#8217;s president, following a campaign that focused on tackling security threats and rooting out corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 76-year-old leader was sworn in on Wednesday amid tight security in the Nigerian capital Abuja. He did not make a speech during the low-profile event attended by members of the diplomatic community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buhari, a former military ruler, won 56 percent of the votes to defeat his main challenger, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples&#8217; Democratic Party in the February election, which had been beset by a host of security and logistic issues that delayed the vote by a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the announcement of the election results, Abubakar filed a petition against the outcome, a process that is ongoing in Nigeria&#8217;s appellate court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buhari will face a number of challenges during his second term as he tries to fulfil his election promises, including dealing with security threats and managing a sluggish economy and a high unemployment rate.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammadu Buhari has been sworn in for a second term as Nigeria&#8217;s president, following a campaign that focused on tackling security threats and rooting out corruption. The 76-year-old leader was sworn in on Wednesday amid tight security in the Nigerian capital Abuja. He did not make a speech during the low-profile event attended by members [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62549,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62547\/revisions\/62549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}