{"id":178463,"date":"2024-08-13T22:04:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-buhari-jonathan-in-attendance-as-tinubu-chairs-council-of-state-meeting\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T22:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:04:11","slug":"nigeria-buhari-jonathan-in-attendance-as-tinubu-chairs-council-of-state-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-buhari-jonathan-in-attendance-as-tinubu-chairs-council-of-state-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Buhari, Jonathan in Attendance As Tinubu Chairs Council of State Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The meeting, which commenced at about 12 noon at the Council Chambers of the Villa, is the first since President Tinubu assumed office in May last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Former Presidents Muhammadu Buhari and Goodluck Jonathan are attending the Council of State meeting at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Former Head of State Yakubu Gowon and Abdulsalami Abubakar are reportedly attending the meeting virtually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Most of the 36 State governors are physically present at the meeting chaired by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408130563.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>The meeting, which commenced at about 12 noon at the Council Chambers of the Villa, is the first since President Tinubu assumed office in May last year. Former Presidents Muhammadu Buhari and Goodluck Jonathan are attending the Council of State meeting at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja. Former Head of State Yakubu Gowon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178464,"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":[258,256,11150,5228,11599,6158,8304,6015,257,4687,393,254,6017,8308],"class_list":["post-178463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attendance","tag-buhari","tag-chairs","tag-council","tag-jonathan","tag-meeting","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-tinubu"],"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\/178463","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=178463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}