{"id":228937,"date":"2026-05-28T17:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=228937"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:54:54","slug":"ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=228937","title":{"rendered":"Ethnicity, religion dominate Nigeria\u2019s politics: Ex-Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian ambassador to Chad, Abdullahi Omaki, says elections in Nigeria are still driven more by ethnicity, religion, and regional identity than by development and national stability considerations. He made this known in an interview in Abuja on Thursday. According to him, voters often focus on a candidate\u2019s background rather than policy or progress&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian ambassador to Chad, Abdullahi Omaki, says elections in Nigeria are still driven more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228937","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\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy.png",710,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy.png",640,361,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy.png",640,361,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy.png",710,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy.png",710,400,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy.png",710,400,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy.png",710,400,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228937-ethnicity-religion-dominate-nigerias-politics-ex-envoy-590x400.png",590,400,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\/228937","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=228937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}