{"id":33588,"date":"2019-02-28T16:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33588"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:24:29","slug":"nigerias-president-muhammadu-buhari-reelected-but-opponent-rejects-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33588","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s President Muhammadu Buhari reelected, but opponent rejects results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Abuja, Nigeria (CNN)<\/cite>Nigeria&#8217;s President Muhammadu Buhari has been declared winner of the country&#8217;s elections, according to the electoral commission who said he polled 56 percent of the votes. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Buhari, who first came to power in 2015 after defeating then-incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, defeated his main challenger Atiku Abubakar by a margin of nearly four million votes in results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), in Abuja, Nigeria&#8217;s capital.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) claimed 15,191,847 (56%) while Abubakar received 11,262,978 (41%) of votes in the weekend election, according to the commission, which finished counting state-by-state results on Tuesday. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja, Nigeria (CNN)Nigeria&#8217;s President Muhammadu Buhari has been declared winner of the country&#8217;s elections, according to the electoral commission who said he polled 56 percent of the votes. Buhari, who first came to power in 2015 after defeating then-incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, defeated his main challenger Atiku Abubakar by a margin of nearly four million votes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33588","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\/33588","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=33588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}