{"id":74455,"date":"2025-08-28T15:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74455"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:36:04","slug":"el-rufai-rules-out-2027-election-bid-pledges-to-mentor-young-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/28\/el-rufai-rules-out-2027-election-bid-pledges-to-mentor-young-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai Rules Out 2027 Election Bid, Pledges to Mentor Young Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that he will not contest for any political office in the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Kaduna on Wednesday while receiving defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), into the African Democratic Congress (ADC), El-Rufai stressed that his renewed involvement in politics is not motivated by personal ambition but by a desire to nurture credible leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not contesting for anything. I don\u2019t want to go to the Senate. I am not seeking any position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai explained that after leaving office in 2023, he had planned to step away from partisan politics.<\/p>\n<p>However, he noted that recent national developments compelled him to re-engage, this time with a focus on mentoring young people, women, and reform-minded Nigerians for leadership roles.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged youths across Kaduna State and Nigeria to participate actively in the ongoing voter registration exercise, stressing that their involvement is vital to reshaping the country\u2019s political future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that he will not contest for any political office in the 2027 general elections. Speaking in Kaduna on Wednesday while receiving defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), into the African Democratic Congress (ADC), El-Rufai stressed that his renewed involvement in politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,192,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2027-general-elections","category-inec","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74455","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=74455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74457,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74455\/revisions\/74457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}