{"id":71517,"date":"2017-09-25T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=71517"},"modified":"2017-09-25T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:28:07","slug":"buhari-congratulates-germanys-merkel-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/buhari-congratulates-germanys-merkel-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari congratulates Germany\u2019s Merkel on election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other world leaders to congratulate the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on her election victory.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari felicitated with Merkel in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesinain, in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He also congratulated Merkel\u2019s party for offering quality leadership to the European nation since the past 2 years, describing the victory as another opportunity to sustain the legacy of good work.<\/p>\n<p>The president recalled his interactions with Merkel over the years, especially at the G8 meeting in 2015 and during his visit to Germany in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari said that he came out after each of the meetings with a strong impression of Merkel as a leader committed to building stronger ties across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian leader wished the German chancellor a successful tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel\u2019s conservative Christian Union (UDU\/CSU) bloc, scored 32.9 per cent of the votes cast at the election, held on Sept. 24, to clinch a record fourth tenure in office.<\/p>\n<p>Political analysts say that Merkel\u2019s party now has to build an uneasy coalition with its nearest rival, the Social Democrats and its candidate, Martin Schulz, coming a distant second with 20.8 per cent of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>They argue, however, that Merkel\u2019s victory is clouded by the hard-right AfD party, winning its first seats in the German parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other world leaders to congratulate the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on her election victory. Buhari felicitated with Merkel in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesinain, in Abuja on Monday. He also congratulated Merkel\u2019s party for offering quality leadership to the European nation since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":71518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[7877,7876,20590],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Buhari congratulates Germany\u2019s Merkel on election victory | New Mail 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:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/buhari-congratulates-germanys-merkel-election-victory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari congratulates Germany\u2019s Merkel on election victory | New Mail Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other world leaders to congratulate the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on her election victory. 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