{"id":60364,"date":"2025-02-02T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60364"},"modified":"2025-02-02T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T17:48:13","slug":"focus-on-strengthening-democracy-not-personal-ambition-apc-chieftain-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/02\/focus-on-strengthening-democracy-not-personal-ambition-apc-chieftain-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Strengthening Democracy, Not Personal Ambition, APC Chieftain warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former APC National Vice Chairman, North West, Salihu Lukman, has urged politicians, especially those in the opposition, to prioritize strengthening democracy over personal ambition ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement titled &#8220;Early Outline of the Permutations for 2027,&#8221; Lukman cautioned against the politics of power shift, warning that it often serves as a tool for individual political gains rather than genuine democratic progress.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that Nigeria\u2019s democracy needs leadership driven by selflessness and political competition rather than imposition.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, a focus on power struggles weakens governance, erodes accountability, and perpetuates political dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Lukman called on Nigerians to reject self-serving politicians and advocate for a system that fosters true democracy, where leadership emerges through merit and competition, not political maneuvering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 Former APC National Vice Chairman, North West, Salihu Lukman, has urged politicians, especially those in the opposition, to prioritize strengthening democracy over personal ambition ahead of the 2027 elections. In a statement titled &#8220;Early Outline of the Permutations for 2027,&#8221; Lukman cautioned against the politics of power shift, warning that it often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60364","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\/60364","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60366,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60364\/revisions\/60366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}