{"id":72994,"date":"2025-08-13T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72994"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:52:39","slug":"soludo-backs-tinubus-2027-bid-cites-22-year-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/13\/soludo-backs-tinubus-2027-bid-cites-22-year-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Soludo Backs Tinubu\u2019s 2027 Bid, Cites 22-Year Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has declared his support for President Bola Tinubu\u2019s re-election bid in 2027, pointing to their 22-year friendship and the President\u2019s \u201cbold economic and structural reforms\u201d as the basis for his endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists after meeting Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday, Soludo stressed that his backing was personal and not tied to political party lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu is my friend; he has been my friend for 22 years now and counting, so you don\u2019t deny your friend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor lauded Tinubu\u2019s handling of the economy, describing him as \u201chale, hearty, and in high spirits,\u201d and urged progressive political parties to form a broad coalition to deepen democracy and drive national development.<\/p>\n<p>On security in Anambra, Soludo outlined a dual approach combining \u201ckinetic and non-kinetic\u201d measures.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the passage of the state\u2019s Homeland Security Law, which he said has curbed the influence of \u201cdeadly native doctors\u201d encouraging criminal activity, and highlighted youth empowerment programmes aimed at creating \u201cthousands of young millionaires\u201d within three years.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that intelligence gathering, infrastructure development, and social investment remain central to tackling insecurity and reducing hardship in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has declared his support for President Bola Tinubu\u2019s re-election bid in 2027, pointing to their 22-year friendship and the President\u2019s \u201cbold economic and structural reforms\u201d as the basis for his endorsement. Speaking to journalists after meeting Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday, Soludo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72994","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72996,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72994\/revisions\/72996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}