{"id":5551,"date":"2019-02-28T17:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2019-02-28T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:23:53","slug":"what-we-expect-from-buharis-re-election-theresa-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-we-expect-from-buharis-re-election-theresa-may","title":{"rendered":"What we expect from Buhari\u2019s re-election \u2013 Theresa May"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK Prime Minister, Theresa May has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election<\/p>\n

Buhari, on Wednesday, was declared winner of presidential 2019 election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for defeating his close rival Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n

Prominent and well-meaning Nigerians, as well as African leaders, have since been commending and congratulating Buhari over his victory in the election.<\/p>\n

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\nTheresa May, reacting to Buhari\u2019s victory congratulated the president on his re-election.<\/p>\n

May in a terse statement expressed optimism in future UK-Nigeria relationship following Buhari\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n

The statement read: \u201cCongratulations Buhari.I witnessed first-hand the importance of the UK-Nigeria relationship during my trip last year<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to continuing our close partnership and strengthening our shared prosperity and security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK Prime Minister, Theresa May has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election Buhari, on Wednesday, was declared winner of presidential 2019 election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for defeating his close rival Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Prominent and well-meaning Nigerians, as well as African leaders, have since been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14],"tags":[97,38,354,336,374],"class_list":["post-5551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-election","tag-security","tag-statement","tag-uk"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat we expect from Buhari\u2019s re-election \u2013 Theresa May - 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\/what-we-expect-from-buharis-re-election-theresa-may\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What we expect from Buhari\u2019s re-election \u2013 Theresa May\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UK Prime Minister, Theresa May has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election Buhari, on Wednesday, was declared winner of presidential 2019 election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for defeating his close rival Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. 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