{"id":49984,"date":"2024-09-20T22:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-didnt-become-president-for-money-nigerians-gave-me-their-votes-tinubu\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T22:04:31","slug":"i-didnt-become-president-for-money-nigerians-gave-me-their-votes-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-didnt-become-president-for-money-nigerians-gave-me-their-votes-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn\u2019t become president for money, Nigerians gave me their votes \u2013 Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has insisted that he did not contest for the position in order to enrich himself.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tinubu, he came to \u201cwork\u201d after Nigerians \u201cgave\u201d him their votes.<\/p>\n<p>The president stated this on Friday, during a meeting with the Forum of Former Presiding Officers of the National Assembly, led by former Senate President, Ken Nnamani.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu assured that his administration was determined to deliver tangible results and make a positive difference in various sectors including education and long-term economic stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI didn\u2019t come to look for money and exploit the situation; I came to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked for the votes, and Nigerians gave them to me,\u201d Tinubu said.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance were 16 former presiding officers, including former senate presidents, former speakers of the House of Representatives, former deputy senate presidents, and former deputy speakers of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t become president for money, Nigerians gave me their votes \u2013 Tinubu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has insisted that he did not contest for the position in order to enrich himself. According to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}