{"id":169717,"date":"2025-08-18T22:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=169717"},"modified":"2025-08-18T22:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:15:31","slug":"i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=169717","title":{"rendered":"I used to be very active in criticising President Jonathan. I was naive, I\u2019m sorry \u2013 Bello El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bello El-Rufai, a House of Representatives member from Kaduna North and son of former Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai, has admitted that he was naive to have criticized former President Goodluck Jonathan. Speaking on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today, Bello expressed regret over his past comments, acknowledging that he failed to appreciate the quality of governance under \u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/2025\/06\/13\/i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bello El-Rufai, a House of Representatives member from Kaduna North and son of former Kaduna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai.webp",900,621,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai-300x207.webp",300,207,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai-768x530.webp",640,442,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai.webp",640,442,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai.webp",900,621,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai.webp",900,621,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai.webp",900,621,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169717-i-used-to-be-very-active-in-criticising-president-jonathan-i-was-naive-im-sorry-bello-el-rufai-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}