{"id":64388,"date":"2025-04-17T09:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64388"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:15:30","slug":"comedian-turned-politician-mc-tagwaye-joins-amac-chairmanship-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/17\/comedian-turned-politician-mc-tagwaye-joins-amac-chairmanship-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian-Turned-Politician, MC Tagwaye, Joins AMAC Chairmanship Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Popular comedian and educator, Obinna Simon, widely known as MC Tagwaye, has formally declared his intention to contest for the chairmanship of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), in the 2026 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference held in Abuja on Wednesday, Tagwaye announced that he would be running on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).<\/p>\n<p>He stated that his decision was driven by a passion for inclusive governance and sustainable development, with a particular focus on addressing infrastructural challenges and revitalizing the education sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf elected, I will declare a state of emergency in education,\u201d he said, referencing his background as a teacher with over eight years of classroom experience.<\/p>\n<p>Tagwaye expressed concern over the disconnect between local leadership and the people, noting that more than 70 percent of AMAC residents are unaware of the identity of their current chairman\u2014a situation he described as a sign of leadership failure.<\/p>\n<p>He decried the poor state of infrastructure in many AMAC communities, citing the lack of accessible roads and functional schools as pressing issues.<\/p>\n<p>The chairmanship hopeful called on residents to support his ambition, promising to lead with \u201cintegrity, innovation, and education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also praised the SDP for its internal cohesion and encouragement of new leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Popular comedian and educator, Obinna Simon, widely known as MC Tagwaye, has formally declared his intention to contest for the chairmanship of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), in the 2026 general elections. Speaking at a press conference held in Abuja on Wednesday, Tagwaye announced that he would be running on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64388","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=64388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64390,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64388\/revisions\/64390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}