{"id":49122,"date":"2015-04-01T01:10:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T01:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fp_fourth_times_the_charm_buhari_ousts_jonathan_in_nigerian_election\/"},"modified":"2015-04-01T01:10:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T01:10:41","slug":"fp_fourth_times_the_charm_buhari_ousts_jonathan_in_nigerian_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49122","title":{"rendered":"(FP) Fourth Time\u2019s the Charm: Buhari Ousts Jonathan in Nigerian Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his fourth democratic bid for Nigeria\u2019s presidency, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari finally claimed victory Tuesday, beating incumbent Goodluck Jonathan by more than 3 million votes, according to early counts of the polling.<\/p>\n<p>Results are not yet official, but Buhari has claimed victory, and according to media reports, Jonathan has called his rival and conceded defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The election marks the first time since Nigeria\u2019s 1999 transition from military rule that the People\u2019s Democratic Party has lost the country\u2019s presidency and the first time an incumbent has been ousted from the office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/03\/31\/fourth-time-the-charm-buhari-ousts-goodluck-jonathan-nigerian-election\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his fourth democratic bid for Nigeria\u2019s presidency, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari finally claimed victory Tuesday, beating incumbent Goodluck Jonathan by more than 3 million votes, according to early counts of the polling. Results are not yet official, but<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49122\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,168,133,426,659,327,155,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122","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=49122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}