{"id":76771,"date":"2025-10-16T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76771"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:35:12","slug":"momodu-urges-united-opposition-ethnic-religious-strategy-to-challenge-tinubu-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/16\/momodu-urges-united-opposition-ethnic-religious-strategy-to-challenge-tinubu-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Momodu Urges United Opposition, Ethnic-Religious Strategy to Challenge Tinubu in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former PDP chieftain and Ovation magazine publisher, Dele Momodu, has urged opposition parties to unite and adopt what he called an \u201cethnic and religious strategy\u201d to stand a chance against President Bola Tinubu in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Momodu said no Southern candidate, including former President Goodluck Jonathan or Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi, could defeat Tinubu if they contest independently.<\/p>\n<p>He advised the opposition to form a broad coalition, proposing a Northern Muslim presidential candidate with a Southern Christian running mate to counter Tinubu\u2019s likely Muslim\/Muslim ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Momodu expressed worry over Nigeria\u2019s drift toward a one-party state, citing recent defections of PDP governors to the APC, but maintained that \u201cthe game is not over\u201d if the opposition acts decisively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Former PDP chieftain and Ovation magazine publisher, Dele Momodu, has urged opposition parties to unite and adopt what he called an \u201cethnic and religious strategy\u201d to stand a chance against President Bola Tinubu in 2027. In a post on X, Momodu said no Southern candidate, including former President Goodluck Jonathan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2027-general-elections","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76771","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=76771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76773,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76771\/revisions\/76773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}