{"id":30678,"date":"2019-01-26T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30678"},"modified":"2019-01-26T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T15:23:08","slug":"nigerian-election-in-chaos-as-buhari-suspends-top-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30678","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian election in chaos as Buhari suspends top judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)<\/cite>Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has come under intense scrutiny for suspending his country&#8217;s Chief Justice just weeks before a general election, a move that critics have attacked as tyrannical and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Buhari defended his decision on Twitter, saying corruption allegations against Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen &#8212; who has been accused of failing to disclose bank accounts in foreign currencies &#8212; are &#8220;grievous.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But the move was labelled a &#8220;coup against democracy&#8221; by the President of the Nigerian Senate, and prompted an outcry from the country&#8217;s major opposition party, which halted its presidential election campaign in protest. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has come under intense scrutiny for suspending his country&#8217;s Chief Justice just weeks before a general election, a move that critics have attacked as tyrannical and unconstitutional.Buhari defended his decision on Twitter, saying corruption allegations against Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen &#8212; who has been accused of failing to disclose&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30678","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=30678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}