{"id":72144,"date":"2025-08-05T15:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72144"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:23:52","slug":"youre-almost-80-stop-party-hopping-wike-tells-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/youre-almost-80-stop-party-hopping-wike-tells-atiku\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re Almost 80, Stop Party-Hopping, Wike tells Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has taken a swipe at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, urging him to quit switching political parties as he nears 80.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a media chat in Abuja, Wike said Atiku\u2019s frequent defections show a lack of ideological consistency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are nearly 80, stop jumping from one party to another,\u201d Wike said. \u201cLet younger people lead with stability and focus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He accused Atiku of weakening the opposition, especially during crucial election cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Wike, a former PDP chieftain now aligned with the APC, has been vocal about leadership and reform within the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The clash deepens ongoing tensions within the PDP ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has taken a swipe at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, urging him to quit switching political parties as he nears 80. Speaking during a media chat in Abuja, Wike said Atiku\u2019s frequent defections show a lack of ideological consistency. \u201cYou are nearly 80, stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-72144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72144","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=72144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72146,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72144\/revisions\/72146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}