{"id":227081,"date":"2026-05-20T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=227081"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:55:16","slug":"betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=227081","title":{"rendered":"Betara, Biu and the Politics of Grassroots Legitimacy By Lawan Bukar Maigana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Betara, Biu and the Politics of Grassroots Legitimacy By Lawan Bukar Maigana There was something unusually defiant about the manner in which Muktar Aliyu Betara addressed his supporters in Biu after the recent primary elections. It was not the desperation often associated with politicians struggling for relevance&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prnigeria.com\/2026\/05\/17\/betara-biu-politics\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betara, Biu and the Politics of Grassroots Legitimacy By Lawan Bukar Maigana There was something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana.jpg",1280,1280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana-768x768.jpg",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana-1024x1024.jpg",640,640,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana.jpg",1280,1280,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana.jpg",1280,1280,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227081-betara-biu-and-the-politics-of-grassroots-legitimacy-by-lawan-bukar-maigana-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\/227081","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=227081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}