{"id":9807,"date":"2018-06-08T13:21:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9807"},"modified":"2018-06-08T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:21:41","slug":"buhari-assents-bill-restricting-vp-who-completes-presidents-tenure-to-1-term-instead-of-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/buhari-assents-bill-restricting-vp-who-completes-presidents-tenure-to-1-term-instead-of-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari assents bill restricting VP who completes president&#8217;s tenure to 1 term instead of 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammmadu Buhari on Friday signed a bill to ensure that where a vice president succeeds a president and where a deputy governor succeeds a governor, he or she can no more contest for that office more than once.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Ita Enang, who disclosed this to State House correspondents, said: &#8220;And the fact is that having taken the oath as President once, and you can only contest for once again and no more. 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