{"id":202663,"date":"2025-07-17T21:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-good-night-baba-buhari-the-peoples-general-and-president\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:03:57","slug":"nigeria-good-night-baba-buhari-the-peoples-general-and-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-good-night-baba-buhari-the-peoples-general-and-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Good Night Baba Buhari &#8211; The People&#8217;s General and President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>As the sun sets on the chapter of arguably the most popular figure in Nigeria &#8216;s political history, its a time for sober reflection and deep introspection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Baba Buhari, as he was fondly called, was a charismatic character, a noble gentleman and a man with a mein that speaks of focus and dedication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"115\">Our family association dates back to before I was born, he was petroleum commissioner (Minister) and my father (late Col. Sabo Aliyu) was the Chairman Ports Decongestion Committee. Their association&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170650.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>As the sun sets on the chapter of arguably the most popular figure in Nigeria &#8216;s political history, its a time for sober reflection and deep introspection. Baba Buhari, as he was fondly called, was a charismatic character, a noble gentleman and a man with a mein that speaks of focus and dedication. Our family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,22217,5228,6768,6677,257,4687,393,7589,8649,2450,254],"class_list":["post-202663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baba","tag-buhari","tag-general","tag-good","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-night","tag-peoples","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/202663","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=202663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}