{"id":4549,"date":"2015-03-11T13:49:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T13:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2015-03-11T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T13:49:53","slug":"the-gej-effect-how-obanikoro-managed-to-become-minister-despite-ekiti-rigging-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"The GEJ Effect: How Obanikoro Managed To Become Minister Despite Ekiti Rigging Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obanikoro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4550\" alt=\"obanikoro\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obanikoro.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>As reported earlier, the Nigerian senate on Wednesday confirmed Musiliu Obanikoro as a Federal minister. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Premium Times reports that this appointment was due to President Goodluck Jonathan, and that the allegations of Mr. Obanikoro&#8217;s complicity in the election fraud in Ekiti were brushed aside.<\/p>\n<p>As will be remembered, Obanikoro was made in a leaked tape as one of the key players in the rigging of the state&#8217;s governorship elections in 2014, a story that caused nationwide outrage.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Government has refused to investigate the claims, brushing it aside as lies.<\/p>\n<p>Obanikoro became senate-approved as Minister on Wednesday after repeated postponements, despite the protests from Lagos senators and APC members.<\/p>\n<p>As the tale goes, the senate allowed Mr. Obanikoro to &#8216;take a bow and go&#8217;without answering the questions. This privilege was accorded to him as being a former senator, ie, a former federal lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>The APC members responded by walking out in anger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported earlier, the Nigerian senate on Wednesday confirmed Musiliu Obanikoro as a Federal minister. Premium Times reports that this appointment was due to President Goodluck Jonathan, and that the allegations of Mr. Obanikoro&#8217;s complicity in the election fraud in Ekiti were brushed aside. As will be remembered, Obanikoro was made in a leaked tape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obanikoro.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1bn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}