{"id":73068,"date":"2025-08-13T18:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73068"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:14:04","slug":"el-rufai-signals-defection-to-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/13\/el-rufai-signals-defection-to-adc\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai Signals Defection to ADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, stirred political discussions on Wednesday with a high-profile appearance in Chikun Local Government Area, publicly showing support for the Coalition faction of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p>Standing atop a vehicle, El-Rufai waved the ADC\u2019s green-and-white flag to an enthusiastic crowd, drawing loud cheers from supporters who lined the streets to witness the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>The display has fueled speculation that El-Rufai may be preparing to leave the Social Democratic Party (SDP), for the Coalition-ADC.<\/p>\n<p>While no official statement confirming a defection has been made, political analysts in Kaduna interpret the public gesture as a strong indication of his next political move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Adenike Lawal Former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, stirred political discussions on Wednesday with a high-profile appearance in Chikun Local Government Area, publicly showing support for the Coalition faction of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Standing atop a vehicle, El-Rufai waved the ADC\u2019s green-and-white flag to an enthusiastic crowd, drawing loud cheers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73068","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\/73068","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=73068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73070,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068\/revisions\/73070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}