{"id":49073,"date":"2015-03-28T20:30:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/earlier_this_week-archbishop_welby_asks_government_about_nigerias_presiden\/"},"modified":"2015-03-28T20:30:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T20:30:24","slug":"earlier_this_week-archbishop_welby_asks_government_about_nigerias_presiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49073","title":{"rendered":"Earlier this week&#8211;Archbishop Welby asks government about Nigeria&#39;s presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what assessment they have made of (1) the prospects for a free and fair Presidential election in Nigeria in 2015, and (2) progress made by the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission towards minimising the possibility of electoral fraud. [HL5761]<\/p>\n<p>Baroness Anelay of St Johns: The British Government is closely following developments ahead of Nigeria\u2019s presidential and gubernatorial elections on 28 March and 11 April respectively. This vote will set Nigeria\u2019s course for the next five years and beyond and as Africa\u2019s largest democracy its impact will be felt well beyond its borders. It is vital the elections go ahead without any further delay on 28 March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/articles.php\/5527\/archbishop-asks-government-about-nigerias-presidential-election\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what assessment they have made of (1) the prospects for a free and fair Presidential election in Nigeria in 2015, and (2) progress made by the Nigerian Independent National Electoral<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49073\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,202,74,67,389,199,144,327,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-foreign-relations","category-nigeria","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}