{"id":62314,"date":"2025-03-08T08:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T08:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62314"},"modified":"2025-03-08T08:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T08:51:33","slug":"apc-lands-big-catch-ahead-of-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/08\/apc-lands-big-catch-ahead-of-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Lands \u2018Big Catch\u2019 Ahead of 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8230;as Atiku\u2019s Northern Bloc Defects<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In a dramatic political twist, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has scored a major victory ahead of the 2027 general elections, luring key supporters of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>At an event in Abuja on Friday, APC National Chairman Abdullahi Ganduje and Deputy Senate President Jibrin Barau welcomed defectors from Atiku\u2019s 2023 campaign machinery across the 19 northern states.<\/p>\n<p>Under the <em>Coalition of Atiku Support Groups<\/em>, the members pledged allegiance to President Bola Tinubu, declaring their full support for his re-election bid.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining their defection, the coalition\u2019s coordinator, Abubakar Malami, cited improved security and economic conditions under Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years, terrorism and banditry crippled our region. Today, peace is returning, and food prices are stabilizing,\u201d he said, hailing Tinubu\u2019s policies as a \u201cgame changer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barau described the defection as a \u201cbig catch,\u201d emphasizing that President Tinubu is \u201crepositioning Nigeria for prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ganduje went further, declaring the PDP\u2019s impending collapse, saying, \u201cThis marks the death of PDP in Nigeria, not just in the North.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the 2027 elections fast approaching, this high-profile defection signals a shifting political landscape\u2014one that could alter Atiku\u2019s chances of another presidential bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as Atiku\u2019s Northern Bloc Defects By Patrick Idowu In a dramatic political twist, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has scored a major victory ahead of the 2027 general elections, luring key supporters of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP). At an event in Abuja on Friday, APC National Chairman Abdullahi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62314","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=62314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62316,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62314\/revisions\/62316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}