{"id":1311,"date":"2023-08-14T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:09:43","slug":"apc-secretary-describes-atiku-and-obi-petition-as-hopeless-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/08\/14\/apc-secretary-describes-atiku-and-obi-petition-as-hopeless-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Secretary Describes Atiku And Obi Petition As Hopeless Petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ajibola Basiru has claimed that the petitions challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the just concluded presidential election are \u201cterribly hopeless\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Basiru was unequivocal in his dismissal of the cases<\/p>\n<p>He spoke on Sunday while fielding questions on Channels Television\u2019s Sunday Politics.<\/p>\n<p>Basiru dismissed speculation that the APC is gearing up for a rerun election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom my knowledge of electoral law in Nigeria and having read the petitions and also being part of the proceedings, I would say that all the petitions against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s election are hopeless and nobody needs to even waste time in dismissing same<\/p>\n<p>They are hopeless petitions, terribly hopeless,\u201d he boasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ajibola Basiru has claimed that the petitions challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the just concluded presidential election are \u201cterribly hopeless\u201d However, Basiru was unequivocal in his dismissal of the cases He spoke on Sunday while fielding questions on Channels Television\u2019s Sunday Politics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}