{"id":27668,"date":"2020-07-21T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=27668"},"modified":"2020-07-21T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:46:13","slug":"buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana","title":{"rendered":"Buhari reacts to death of APC Chieftain, Gana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the death of Alhaji Umar Gana, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kaduna State.<\/p>\n<p>Gana, who served as Coordinator and member of the Campaign Council during the 2015 and 2019 presidential election respectively, died on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by Garba Shehu and made available to DAILY POST said that Buhari condoles with Gana\u2019s family, the APC, the government and people of Kaduna State over the death.<\/p>\n<p>He died after a protracted illness.<\/p>\n<p>Shehu noted that Buhari recalls \u201cAlhaji Gana\u2019s enormous contributions towards the successes recorded by the APC at the 2015 and 2019 presidential and governorship polls, during which he served as Coordinator and member of the Campaign Council respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the death of Alhaji Umar Gana, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kaduna State. Gana, who served as Coordinator and member of the Campaign Council during the 2015 and 2019 presidential election respectively, died on Tuesday. A statement signed by Garba Shehu and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":26656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,91],"class_list":["post-27668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-garba-shehu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari reacts to death of APC Chieftain, Gana - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the death of Alhaji Umar Gana, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari reacts to death of APC Chieftain, Gana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the death of Alhaji Umar Gana, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-21T18:46:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Garba-Shehu-1024x576-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari reacts to death of APC Chieftain, Gana\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-21T18:46:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana\"},\"wordCount\":129,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Garba-Shehu-1024x576-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Garba Shehu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-to-death-of-apc-chieftain-gana\",\"name\":\"Buhari reacts to death of APC Chieftain, Gana - 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