{"id":64624,"date":"2025-04-23T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64624"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:41:31","slug":"abaji-monarch-denies-political-meeting-with-north-central-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/23\/abaji-monarch-denies-political-meeting-with-north-central-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Abaji Monarch Denies Political Meeting with North Central Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Ona of Abaji and Chairman of the FCT Council of Chiefs, His Royal Majesty Alhaji Adamu Baba Yunusa, has debunked claims that he held a political meeting with the North Central Renaissance Movement, NRCM, in support of its 2027 presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Reacting to a newspaper report alleging a closed-door meeting with the NRCM convener, Professor K\u2019tso Nghargbu, the monarch, through his Chief of Staff, Dr. Sule Salihu Kakamba, described the publication as false, misleading, and damaging to the reputation of the traditional council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He clarified that the visit by the NRCM team on April 12, 2025, was a mere courtesy call and not a political endorsement or strategy session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAs the Ona of Abaji and Chairman of the FCT Council of Chiefs, I do not engage in partisan politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My duty remains to preserve culture, promote unity, and support the well-being of my people,\u201d Alhaji Yunusa stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He emphasized that the NRCM only came to inform the palace of their advocacy for a power shift to the North Central zone and that he simply gave them a royal blessing out of courtesy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Following the uproar triggered by the report, the monarch disclosed that he contacted Professor Nghargbu, who subsequently issued a letter of apology for the misinformation and the embarrassment it caused the palace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alhaji Yunusa cautioned the media to uphold journalistic integrity by verifying facts before publication, stressing that traditional rulers must be kept out of political speculation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He reaffirmed his commitment to his people\u2019s progress and to remaining a symbol of unity while respecting the non-political role of his office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Ona of Abaji and Chairman of the FCT Council of Chiefs, His Royal Majesty Alhaji Adamu Baba Yunusa, has debunked claims that he held a political meeting with the North Central Renaissance Movement, NRCM, in support of its 2027 presidential ambition. Reacting to a newspaper report alleging a closed-door meeting with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64624","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\/64624","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=64624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64626,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64624\/revisions\/64626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}