{"id":71047,"date":"2025-07-20T20:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71047"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:38:04","slug":"adc-slams-tinubu-over-too-late-northern-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/20\/adc-slams-tinubu-over-too-late-northern-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"ADC Slams Tinubu Over \u2018Too Late\u2019 Northern Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Rofiat Olokuta<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has criticized President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s recent appointments in Northern Nigeria, calling them \u201ctoo little, too late\u201d and a political move to appease the region ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Saturday, the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Bamidele Ajadi, said the North was sidelined in Tinubu\u2019s initial appointments and only now being considered for strategic reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu is scrambling to fix what he should have gotten right from day one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Northerners can see through this tactic, it is insincere and purely strategic,\u201d Ajadi said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He urged the President to end \u201cwindow-dressing\u201d and instead foster genuine equity and inclusion in governance. According to Ajadi, national unity depends on fair treatment for all regions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency has yet to respond to the allegations, but the ADC\u2019s remarks come amid growing political tension and preparations for the 2027 polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rofiat Olokuta The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has criticized President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s recent appointments in Northern Nigeria, calling them \u201ctoo little, too late\u201d and a political move to appease the region ahead of the 2027 general elections. &nbsp; Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Saturday, the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":71044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71047","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\/71047","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71048,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71047\/revisions\/71048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}