{"id":62862,"date":"2025-03-16T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62862"},"modified":"2025-03-16T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:29:14","slug":"ojudu-questions-el-rufais-latest-political-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/16\/ojudu-questions-el-rufais-latest-political-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Ojudu Questions El-Rufai\u2019s Latest Political Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senator Babafemi Ojudu has raised serious concerns over former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai\u2019s latest political realignment, questioning whether it is driven by national interest or personal ambition.<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter, Ojudu recounted their shared political history but warned against what he called Nigeria\u2019s endless cycle of political defections.<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the lack of ideological depth in the country\u2019s political parties and urged El-Rufai to focus on building a lasting political institution rather than seeking personal control.<\/p>\n<p>Ojudu also expressed disappointment over El-Rufai\u2019s alliance with figures like Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, calling it a betrayal of democratic values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this is just another barber\u2019s chair, spinning in circles but going nowhere, then you are wasting your time,\u201d Ojudu wrote, concluding with a warning that history will be the ultimate judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Senator Babafemi Ojudu has raised serious concerns over former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai\u2019s latest political realignment, questioning whether it is driven by national interest or personal ambition. In an open letter, Ojudu recounted their shared political history but warned against what he called Nigeria\u2019s endless cycle of political defections. He criticized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62862","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\/62862","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=62862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62864,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62862\/revisions\/62864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}