{"id":2460,"date":"2007-05-29T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2007-05-29T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T16:40:49","slug":"new-nigerian-president-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/new-nigerian-president-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"New Nigerian President sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42982000\/jpg\/_42982933_yaradua_afp203b.jpg\"><br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6699337.stm\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua has been sworn in as Nigeria&#8217;s new president at a colourful ceremony in the capital, Abuja.<br \/>\nStanding on a podium in a parade ground dressed in a white gown, Mr Yar&#8217;Adua was cheered by his supporters after he signed the oath of office.<br \/>\nThe inauguration marks the first time in Nigeria&#8217;s history that one civilian leader has taken over from another.<br \/>\nBut his election was widely condemned as &#8220;not credible&#8221; and small protests were held in the largest city, Lagos.<br \/>\n&#8220;I, Umaru Musa Yar&#8217;Adua, do solemnly swear that I will be faithful and hold allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria&#8230; That I will protect and defend the constitution,&#8221; said Mr Yar&#8217;Adua, taking the oath from Chief Justice Idris Kutigi. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Word is there were lots of protests surrounding the ceremonies today as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua has been sworn in as Nigeria&#8217;s new president at a colourful ceremony in the capital, Abuja. Standing on a podium in a parade ground dressed in a white gown, Mr Yar&#8217;Adua was cheered by his supporters after he signed the oath of office. The inauguration marks the first time in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/new-nigerian-president-sworn-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Nigerian President sworn in<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-DG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}