{"id":22268,"date":"2018-11-18T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T11:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22268"},"modified":"2018-11-18T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T11:22:41","slug":"president-buhari-78-others-in-the-fray-for-nigerian-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22268","title":{"rendered":"President Buhari, 78 others in the fray for Nigerian polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"61.9336492891\">\n<p>Campaigning has begun for what is expected to be Nigeria&#8217;s most expensive presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>A record 79 candidates are in the race, including the incumbent President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/muhammadu-buhari.html\">Muhammadu Buhari<\/a>. But his hopes of re-election are threatened by criticism of his handling of the economy and the war against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/boko-haram.html\">Boko Haram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian presidential election will be held in February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Ahmed Idris reports from Abuja.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigning has begun for what is expected to be Nigeria&#8217;s most expensive presidential election. A record 79 candidates are in the race, including the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari. But his hopes of re-election are threatened by criticism of his handling of the economy and the war against Boko Haram. The Nigerian presidential election will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}