{"id":203439,"date":"2025-07-28T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-young-buharis-poetic-tribute-to-a-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:24:48","slug":"nigeria-young-buharis-poetic-tribute-to-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-young-buharis-poetic-tribute-to-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Young Buhari&#8217;s Poetic Tribute to a Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"98\">At the recent public presentation of the book &#8220;According to the President&#8221; by Mallam Garba Shehu, former presidential spokesperson, precisely on July 9, 2025, a moment of unexpected eloquence and emotion stole the spotlight. Amidst a sea of statesmen and dignitaries &#8212; including former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon, former Vice Presidents Atiku Abubakar and Yemi Osinbajo, and a host of ministers and public figures &#8212; a young boy, no older than nine, confidently approached the podium. Clad in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507280088.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>At the recent public presentation of the book &#8220;According to the President&#8221; by Mallam Garba Shehu, former presidential spokesperson, precisely on July 9, 2025, a moment of unexpected eloquence and emotion stole the spotlight. Amidst a sea of statesmen and dignitaries &#8212; including former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon, former Vice Presidents Atiku Abubakar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203440,"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":[258,256,7893,7079,257,4687,393,40381,254,10225,7720],"class_list":["post-203439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buharis","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-poetic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tribute","tag-young"],"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\/203439","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=203439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}