{"id":74554,"date":"2025-08-30T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74554"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:27:40","slug":"opposition-blasts-apc-over-false-2027-presidential-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/30\/opposition-blasts-apc-over-false-2027-presidential-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Blasts APC Over \u2018False\u2019 2027 Presidential Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has criticized the All Progressives Congress (APC), for declaring its 2027 presidential ticket open, despite an earlier endorsement of President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>CUPP\u2019s National Secretary, Peter Ameh, described the move as a \u201cfalse contest\u201d designed to deceive Nigerians and exploit unsuspecting aspirants.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that asking others to buy nomination forms was a ploy to make them waste resources on a race already decided.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Democratic Party (SDP), echoed the criticism, accusing the APC of imposition and godfatherism.<\/p>\n<p>Its National Publicity Secretary, Rufus Aiyenigba, said the ruling party was suffocating internal democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), National Executive Committee, Timothy Osadolor, condemned the APC\u2019s stance as \u201cthe height of deceit,\u201d claiming it was meant to discourage genuine competition.<\/p>\n<p>The APC\u2019s National Organising Secretary, Sulaiman Argungu, had earlier said the party would not \u201cclose our doors\u201d to other aspirants, but opposition leaders dismissed the assurance as hollow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has criticized the All Progressives Congress (APC), for declaring its 2027 presidential ticket open, despite an earlier endorsement of President Bola Tinubu. CUPP\u2019s National Secretary, Peter Ameh, described the move as a \u201cfalse contest\u201d designed to deceive Nigerians and exploit unsuspecting aspirants. He argued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74554","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\/74554","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=74554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74556,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74554\/revisions\/74556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}