{"id":73179,"date":"2025-08-14T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73179"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:26:10","slug":"aisha-yesufu-accuses-tinubu-of-rigging-election-for-perks-not-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/14\/aisha-yesufu-accuses-tinubu-of-rigging-election-for-perks-not-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Aisha Yesufu Accuses Tinubu of Rigging Election for Perks, Not Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aisha Yesufu, former co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls (BBOG), advocacy group, on Thursday accused President Bola Tinubu of rigging the 2023 presidential election to enjoy the perks of office rather than to govern effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Yesufu\u2019s comments came in response to criticism from former Labour Party candidate Peter Obi, who described Tinubu\u2019s planned foreign trips to Japan and Brazil as \u201cinsensitive,\u201d given Nigeria\u2019s ongoing challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Obi noted that the president had recently returned from Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Yesufu mocked Tinubu as an \u201cAgba baller\u201d and suggested that his focus in securing the presidency was personal gain rather than addressing national issues.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu, barring any changes, is scheduled to depart Nigeria for Japan and Brazil today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Aisha Yesufu, former co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls (BBOG), advocacy group, on Thursday accused President Bola Tinubu of rigging the 2023 presidential election to enjoy the perks of office rather than to govern effectively. Yesufu\u2019s comments came in response to criticism from former Labour Party candidate Peter Obi, who described Tinubu\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73179","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\/73179","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=73179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73181,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73179\/revisions\/73181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}