{"id":650,"date":"2021-10-07T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coastaltimes557122118.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/07\/2023-where-nigerias-president-comes-from-does-not-matter__atiku\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:51:24","slug":"2023-where-nigerias-president-comes-from-does-not-matter__atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/2023-where-nigerias-president-comes-from-does-not-matter__atiku\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Where Nigeria&#8217;s President Comes From Does Not Matter__Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Coastal News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" data-attachment-id=\"648\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/2023-where-nigerias-president-comes-from-does-not-matter__atiku\/screenshot_20211007-154718_wordpress\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/screenshot_20211007-154718_wordpress.jpg?fit=961%2C714&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"961,714\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot_20211007-154718_WordPress.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/screenshot_20211007-154718_wordpress.jpg?fit=640%2C476&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/screenshot_20211007-154718_wordpress.jpg?resize=640%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/screenshot_20211007-154718_wordpress.jpg?w=961&amp;ssl=1 961w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/screenshot_20211007-154718_wordpress.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/screenshot_20211007-154718_wordpress.jpg?resize=768%2C571&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Atiku Abubakar <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has said Nigerians are not bothered where their next President will come from but are hopeful of a leader desirous of addressing the challenges facing the nation.<br \/>Atiku stated this in his brief remarks at the 94th National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting of the party in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPDP has the right to determine how the party should be run and Nigerians have the right to determine how the country should be governed. The problem of Nigerians has never been where the President comes from,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The post\u00a02023: Where Nigeria\u2019s President comes from, not important \u2015 Atiku\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0Vanguard News.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coastal News Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has said Nigerians are not bothered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2023-presidency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/screenshot_20211007-154718_wordpress-1.jpg?fit=961%2C714&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/breaking-president-buhari-vows-to-make-politicians-others-cough-out-6trillion-naira-misappropriation-nddc-funds\/","url_meta":{"origin":650,"position":0},"title":"BREAKING: President Buhari Vows To Make Politicians, Others Cough Out 6Trillion Naira Misappropriation NDDC Funds","author":"Coastal Times","date":"September 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Coastal News to roll over 6 trillion naira misappropriation in NDDC, Buhari vows President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that unscrupulous Nigerians involved in the misappropriation of six trillion naira pumped into the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC would be made to cough out the missing funds. 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