{"id":67027,"date":"2025-05-31T20:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67027"},"modified":"2025-05-31T20:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T20:14:37","slug":"video-tinubu-snubs-sanwo-olu-at-coastal-highway-launch-sparks-rift-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/31\/video-tinubu-snubs-sanwo-olu-at-coastal-highway-launch-sparks-rift-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Tinubu Snubs Sanwo-Olu at Coastal Highway Launch, Sparks Rift Rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cross Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A short video clip from the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway inauguration has set off a flurry of speculation after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appeared to deliberately skip a handshake with Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.<\/p>\n<p>The video, shared by Dada Olusegun, Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, shows Tinubu greeting a line-up of dignitaries; including Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Senator Ahmed Lawan, Governor Babagana Zulum, and former Bayelsa Governor Duoye Diri before walking past Sanwo-Olu without acknowledgment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The moment has ignited debate among political watchers and social media users, with interpretations ranging from deliberate snub to innocent oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Given Tinubu&#8217;s status as a former Lagos governor and Sanwo-Olu\u2019s political benefactor, the apparent omission has added fuel to ongoing rumours of shifting power dynamics within the Lagos APC.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts are suggesting the cold shoulder could signal tensions within the president\u2019s inner circle, possibly tied to 2027 succession plans or realignment within the ruling party\u2019s Lagos structure.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, neither the Presidency nor Governor Sanwo-Olu\u2019s office has issued a statement on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>In a political season where gestures often speak louder than words, this video has added another layer to Nigeria\u2019s unfolding power drama leaving citizens and commentators alike to ask: signal or oversight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cross Stone A short video clip from the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway inauguration has set off a flurry of speculation after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appeared to deliberately skip a handshake with Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The video, shared by Dada Olusegun, Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, shows Tinubu greeting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":67028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67027","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67029,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67027\/revisions\/67029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}