{"id":1169804,"date":"2022-08-07T19:37:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T19:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/07\/lalong-not-chosen-to-pacify-christians-ex-minister\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T19:37:28","slug":"lalong-not-chosen-to-pacify-christians-ex-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/07\/lalong-not-chosen-to-pacify-christians-ex-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalong Not Chosen To Pacify Christians \u2013 Ex-Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_845742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-845742\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-845742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tinubu, Lalong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has expressed that contrary to speculation, Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, was not selected to placate the Christian community.<\/p>\n<p>Lalong, who is also the Chairman of Northern Governors\u2019 Forum, was recently unveiled at the State House as Director General of Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council.<\/p>\n<p>The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, had presented the governor to President Muhammadu Buhari during a closed-door meeting at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe are here to see Mr. President to brief him and to get his approval of plans that we are having regarding our campaign outfit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Muslim-Muslim Ticket: With Christian Wife, Tinubu Is Example Of What Nigeria Should Be \u2013 Oshiomhole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd once we have his approval, we intend to make major disclosure. We\u2019re on the same page with the President and the individuals who will play various roles in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DG of the campaign is seated by my right here. Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a spokesperson in the person of Festus Keyamo. The deputy spokesperson is Hannatu Musawa. This is what we came to discuss with the President.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tinubu, Lalong Former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has expressed that contrary to speculation, Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, was not selected to placate the Christian community. Lalong, who is also the Chairman of Northern Governors\u2019 Forum, was recently unveiled at the State House as Director General of Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council. The National Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1169806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}