{"id":58095,"date":"2024-12-16T13:43:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58095"},"modified":"2024-12-16T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:43:32","slug":"how-cabal-derailed-buhari-dalung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/16\/how-cabal-derailed-buhari-dalung\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cabal Derailed Buhari &#8211; Dalung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Solomon Dalung, Former Minister of Youth and Sports, has revealed the significant role of cabals in Nigerian governance, alleging that a powerful group seized control of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration shortly after his 2015 election victory.<br \/>\nIn an interview on the Mic On Podcast on Sunday, Dalung described the cabals as a group of individuals appointed to assist in governance but who instead exploited the presidency for their personal gains.<br \/>\nHe recounted his own experience following Buhari&#8217;s victory, recalling how he was blocked from entering the president\u2019s residence, signaling the cabal\u2019s takeover.<br \/>\nDalung criticized the shift, stating that those who had supported Buhari were left unprotected as those with a better understanding of power took over the reins.<br \/>\nHe further emphasized that the real power grabbers were not politicians or CPC loyalists but individuals who acted like &#8220;bandits,&#8221; hijacking the government for their benefit.<br \/>\nHe also warned that the influential group had accumulated vast wealth and would continue to wield power.<br \/>\nDespite revealing these details, Dalung expressed no fear of retaliation, citing his survival of over 10 assassination attempts during his 40 years of political struggle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu Solomon Dalung, Former Minister of Youth and Sports, has revealed the significant role of cabals in Nigerian governance, alleging that a powerful group seized control of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration shortly after his 2015 election victory. In an interview on the Mic On Podcast on Sunday, Dalung described the cabals as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58095","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58098,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58095\/revisions\/58098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}