{"id":72354,"date":"2025-08-06T20:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72354"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:46:40","slug":"ex-apc-aspirant-warns-tinubu-against-early-2027-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/ex-apc-aspirant-warns-tinubu-against-early-2027-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-APC Aspirant Warns Tinubu Against Early 2027 Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential aspirant, Charles Udeogaranya, has advised President Bola Tinubu to refrain from projecting a re-election ambition for 2027 at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, Udeogaranya described such early politicking as premature and potentially distracting from critical governance priorities.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the President to focus on addressing pressing national issues such as economic recovery, security reforms, and restoring public confidence, rather than engaging in second-term conversations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcessive attention to political positioning could wear out the public and embolden the opposition,\u201d he said, urging Tinubu to consolidate governance gains first.<\/p>\n<p>Udeogaranya\u2019s warning aligns with views expressed by other political voices, including former APC caretaker committee member, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, who also cautioned against early 2027 talks.<\/p>\n<p>They stressed that early campaigning risks alienating stakeholders and deepening internal party divisions, at a time when national performance and institutional stability should take precedence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith Former All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential aspirant, Charles Udeogaranya, has advised President Bola Tinubu to refrain from projecting a re-election ambition for 2027 at this stage. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, Udeogaranya described such early politicking as premature and potentially distracting from critical governance priorities. He urged the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72354","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\/72354","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=72354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72356,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72354\/revisions\/72356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}