{"id":4794,"date":"2015-04-01T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T11:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2015-04-01T11:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T11:54:21","slug":"im-looking-forward-to-meeting-jonathan-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Looking Forward To Meeting Jonathan \u2013 Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4768\" alt=\"bu\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bu.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President elect, General Muhammadu Buhari has said he is looking forward to meeting the man he beat in last weekend\u2019s presidential polls, Goodluck Jonathan with a view to ensuring a smooth hand over, even as he dedicated his victory to Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at about 5.55am on Wednesday at the APC\u2019s National Secretariat in Abuja, Buhari said he was ready to extend the hand of friendship to others across the political divide and said he hoped they will be ready to reciprocate the gesture.<br \/>\nIn the speech, which was broadcast live, the former military head of state was very magnanimous in victory praising President Jonathan for accepting the outcome of the poll and congratulating him.<br \/>\nThe retired general insisted that his victory was a victory for Nigerians who had believed in him and voted for change and promised that his government will not let the people down.<br \/>\nPointing out that the outcome of the polls had shown that Nigeria has finally joined the community of nations where change can be made through the ballot box, he urged supporters to be respectful and peaceful at this time.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is not a time for confrontation but a time to heal wounds and work hard for a better future for all Nigerians,\u201d said the president-elect.<br \/>\nThanking the media and security services for the way and manner they handled themselves during the elections, General Buhari said his government would be looking forward to a robust and constructive engagement with the international community.<br \/>\nThe president elect ended the eight minute broadcast by promising a more formal address to the nation later in the day \u201cafter I receive my certificate of return from INEC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President elect, General Muhammadu Buhari has said he is looking forward to meeting the man he beat in last weekend\u2019s presidential polls, Goodluck Jonathan with a view to ensuring a smooth hand over, even as he dedicated his victory to Nigerians. Speaking at about 5.55am on Wednesday at the APC\u2019s National Secretariat in Abuja, Buhari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4768,"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-4794","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\/04\/bu.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1fk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","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=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}