{"id":218084,"date":"2026-04-07T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218084"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:48:00","slug":"pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218084","title":{"rendered":"Pantami, Politics and the Question of Power, by Tahir Ahmad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pantami, Politics and the Question of Power, by Tahir Ahmad \u00a0 In Nigeria\u2019s public life, few figures embody as many identities as Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami\u2014academic, Islamic cleric, technocrat and politician. Soft-spoken yet controversial, scholarly yet resolute in defending his convictions, Pantami rose from preaching platforms in northern Nigeria to become one of the [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Pantami&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economicconfidential.com\/pantami-politics-power\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pantami, Politics and the Question of Power, by Tahir Ahmad \u00a0 In Nigeria\u2019s public life,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad.jpg",1093,992,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad-300x272.jpg",300,272,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad-768x697.jpg",640,581,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad-1024x929.jpg",640,581,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad.jpg",1093,992,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad.jpg",1093,992,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad-1024x929.jpg",1024,929,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218084-pantami-politics-and-the-question-of-power-by-tahir-ahmad-590x410.jpg",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\/218084","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=218084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}