{"id":175718,"date":"2024-07-02T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-i-rejected-n250m-bribe-for-third-term-agenda-wabara\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:25:11","slug":"nigeria-why-i-rejected-n250m-bribe-for-third-term-agenda-wabara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-i-rejected-n250m-bribe-for-third-term-agenda-wabara\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why I Rejected N250m Bribe for Third Term Agenda &#8211; Wabara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">A former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, has revealed that he turned down a bribe of N250 million aimed at swaying him to the side of the pro-third term senators in 2006 because of his educational background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">It would be recalled that the third-term agenda, a major watershed moment in Nigeria&#8217;s 25 years of uninterrupted democratic governance, came in the form of a bill for a constitutional amendment that would see then-President Olusegun Obasanjo qualify to run for a third term in office. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407020092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, has revealed that he turned down a bribe of N250 million aimed at swaying him to the side of the pro-third term senators in 2006 because of his educational background. It would be recalled that the third-term agenda, a major watershed moment in Nigeria&#8217;s 25 years of uninterrupted democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5701,13133,48931,257,4687,393,9170,254,7557,48932],"class_list":["post-175718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agenda","tag-bribe","tag-n250m","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rejected","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-wabara"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}