{"id":69598,"date":"2025-07-03T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69598"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:57:41","slug":"2027-wike-dismisses-adc-coalition-says-only-pdp-can-challenge-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/03\/2027-wike-dismisses-adc-coalition-says-only-pdp-can-challenge-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Wike Dismisses ADC Coalition, Says Only PDP Can Challenge Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed the recently formed opposition coalition under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), describing it as a congregation of disgruntled politicians lacking credibility and cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a media parley on Thursday in Abuja, Wike labeled the coalition a \u201cdesperate refuge\u201d for political actors who, according to him, failed in their attempts to control the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no coalition,\u201d Wike said. \u201cThe opposition has decimated themselves. The only party that can, if properly managed, challenge this government is the PDP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He specifically accused former Senate President David Mark of trying to hijack the PDP\u2019s leadership before surfacing as interim chairman of the ADC-led coalition.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2027 general elections approaching, Wike insisted that, despite its internal challenges, the PDP remains the only viable opposition force capable of taking on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), provided the party stays united.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitics is about interest. They did everything to hijack the PDP\u2019s leadership, but we stood our ground and resisted it,\u201d Wike stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed the recently formed opposition coalition under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), describing it as a congregation of disgruntled politicians lacking credibility and cohesion. Speaking during a media parley on Thursday in Abuja, Wike labeled the coalition a \u201cdesperate refuge\u201d for political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69598","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=69598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69600,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69598\/revisions\/69600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}