{"id":69434,"date":"2025-07-01T18:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69434"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:37:41","slug":"2027-atiku-david-mark-meet-pdp-leaders-over-realignment-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/01\/2027-atiku-david-mark-meet-pdp-leaders-over-realignment-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Atiku, David Mark Meet PDP Leaders Over Realignment Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President and 2023 PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, alongside former Senate President David Mark, held a closed-door meeting with top leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Abuja on Tuesday, fuelling speculation about political realignments ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, which began around 2 p.m. at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, drew several PDP stalwarts, though its official agenda was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say discussions may have touched on the formation of alternative political platforms such as the African Democratic Alliance (ADA), and the African Democratic Congress (ADC), reportedly under consideration by anti-Tinubu forces.<\/p>\n<p>Among those in attendance were former PDP National Chairman Uche Secondus; former governors Aminu Tambuwal, Liyel Imoke, Babangida Aliyu, Gabriel Suswam, and Sam Egwu; as well as Senator Ben Obi, Josephine Anenih, Senator Austin Akobundu, Kola Ologbondiyan, and Abdullahi Maibasira.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku and Mark have remained prominent voices in PDP affairs, and their renewed engagements are widely seen as strategic moves ahead of the 2027 polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Former Vice President and 2023 PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, alongside former Senate President David Mark, held a closed-door meeting with top leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Abuja on Tuesday, fuelling speculation about political realignments ahead of the 2027 general elections. The meeting, which began around 2 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-69434","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\/69434","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=69434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69436,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69434\/revisions\/69436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}