{"id":75453,"date":"2025-09-12T16:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75453"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:02:05","slug":"yobe-south-apc-protests-exclusion-from-federal-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/12\/yobe-south-apc-protests-exclusion-from-federal-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Yobe South APC Protests Exclusion from Federal Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from Yobe South have protested their exclusion from federal appointments under President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Sambo Kakawa, the group visited the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday to register their grievances, describing the development as a \u201ccomplete exclusion\u201d of their zone.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yobe South accounted for 43% of Yobe State\u2019s 1,485,141 registered voters in 2023, delivering over 617,000 votes for the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the zone has not secured any federal appointment, while Yobe East and Yobe North have produced ministers, directors-general, executive secretaries, and board members.<\/p>\n<p>Kakawa lamented the imbalance, stressing that Yobe South, the state\u2019s most populous zone and a strong APC base, deserves fair representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from Yobe South have protested their exclusion from federal appointments under President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration. Led by Sambo Kakawa, the group visited the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday to register their grievances, describing the development as a \u201ccomplete exclusion\u201d of their zone. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75453","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\/75453","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=75453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75455,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75453\/revisions\/75455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}