{"id":29080,"date":"2020-08-24T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=29080"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:21:11","slug":"sultan-of-sokoto-visits-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sultan-of-sokoto-visits-el-rufai","title":{"rendered":"Sultan of Sokoto visits El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Sultan of Sokoto, Saa\u2019d Abubakar, on Monday, visited Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, at the Government House in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>The governor disclosed this on his Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>The Sultan\u2019s visit came just 24 hours after the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, visited Governor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/nba-should-not-have-disinvited-el-rufai-sanusi\/\">El-Rufai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sanusi is expected to stay in Kaduna for one week.<\/p>\n<p>Although the details of the Sultan\u2019s visit has not been made public, it may not be unconnected with the violence in Kaduna, where about 100 people had been killed in ethnic and religious violence in the southern part of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet read: \u201cMalam Nasir El-Rufai has welcomed His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, who is on a private visit to Sir Kashim Ibrahim House.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Sultan of Sokoto, Saa\u2019d Abubakar, on Monday, visited Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, at the Government House in Kaduna. The governor disclosed this on his Twitter handle. The Sultan\u2019s visit came just 24 hours after the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, visited Governor\u00a0El-Rufai. Sanusi is expected to stay in Kaduna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[326,1048],"class_list":["post-29080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-el-rufai","tag-kaduna-state"],"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>Sultan of Sokoto visits El-Rufai - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/sultan-of-sokoto-visits-el-rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sultan of Sokoto visits El-Rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria: The Sultan of Sokoto, Saa\u2019d Abubakar, on Monday, visited Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, at the Government House in Kaduna. 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