{"id":48845,"date":"2021-08-24T17:32:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=48845"},"modified":"2021-08-24T17:18:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:18:03","slug":"pdp-hails-sultan-of-sokoto-at-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-hails-sultan-of-sokoto-at-65","title":{"rendered":"PDP hails Sultan of Sokoto at 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, congratulated the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammadu Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, as he attained the age of 65 years<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, by Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, described the Sultan of Sokoto as an exceptionally upright, courageous and forthright leader, who has dedicated his life and dignified position to the service of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>He said, despite his towering attainments as well, as the authority and grandeur of his exalted throne, the Sultan has remained a firm quintessence of patriotism, compassion, love and service to the people without regard to tribe, creed or class.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP noted that the Sultan\u2019s unrelenting commitment towards national unity and peaceful co-existence in Nigeria, particularly in his roles as Co-Chair of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP exceedingly esteems the Sultan of Sokoto for his wisdom in providing direction, not only for the Muslim community but also for the nation at large, particularly at this critical time in our national history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP heartily felicitates with the Sultan, the Sokoto Sultanate as well as the Muslim community on this momentous occasion and prays to the Almighty Allah, in His mercies, to grant the Sultan many more decades in good health so that our nation and humanity, in general, will continue to benefit from his wealth of experience, wisdom and commitment to humankind.\u201d The statement said<\/p>\n<p>Sultan opposes war in Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, congratulated the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammadu Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, as he attained the age of 65 years In a statement on Tuesday, by Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, described the Sultan of Sokoto as an exceptionally upright, courageous and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":48844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,65,1736],"class_list":["post-48845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-sultan-of-sokoto"],"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>PDP hails Sultan of Sokoto at 65 - 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