{"id":726086,"date":"2019-10-18T09:38:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/18\/bauchi-governor-clarifies-after-god-its-jonathan-comment\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:38:01","slug":"bauchi-governor-clarifies-after-god-its-jonathan-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/18\/bauchi-governor-clarifies-after-god-its-jonathan-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bauchi Governor Clarifies &#8220;After God Its Jonathan&#8221; Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_643011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-643011\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-643011 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/goodluck-jonathans-new-book-is-elementary-and-full-of-fiction-borno-governor-blows-hot-600x392.jpg\" alt=\"Goodluck Jonathan\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-643011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ex-President Jonathan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After whipping up sentiments with his comment, \u201cafter God, it\u2019s former President Goodluck Jonathan\u201d, Bauchi state governor, Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has clarified his position.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Mohammad had made the comment during the inauguration of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)\u2019s campaign council for Bayelsa and Kogi states governorship election at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The governor was quoted as saying that, as far as he was concerned, after God, it\u2019s Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>However, while speaking with journalists on the issue, the state Commissioner of Information and Communications, Ladan Salihu, clarified the governor\u2019s stance saying Muhammed had always acknowledged God and Prophet Muhammed before making any utterance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Jonathan Meets Buhari Behind Closed Door At Presidential Villa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He stated further that the statement by the governor was a purely normal and political statement.<\/p>\n<p>He berated critics at how it was being misinterpreted to the extent of linking the issue with faith. He said the governor only praised the former president whom he described as his political mentor and role model for giving him the mandate to serve as FCT Minister during his administration.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-President Jonathan After whipping up sentiments with his comment, \u201cafter God, it\u2019s former President Goodluck Jonathan\u201d, Bauchi state governor, Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has clarified his position. Governor Mohammad had made the comment during the inauguration of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)\u2019s campaign council for Bayelsa and Kogi states governorship election at the National Secretariat of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bauchi Governor Clarifies &quot;After God Its Jonathan&quot; Comment - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/18\/bauchi-governor-clarifies-after-god-its-jonathan-comment\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bauchi Governor Clarifies &quot;After God Its Jonathan&quot; Comment - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ex-President Jonathan After whipping up sentiments with his comment, \u201cafter God, it\u2019s former President Goodluck Jonathan\u201d, Bauchi state governor, Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has clarified his position. 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