{"id":79493,"date":"2025-12-01T06:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79493"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:32:42","slug":"adc-rejects-yakubus-ambassadorial-nomination-warns-of-public-distrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/01\/adc-rejects-yakubus-ambassadorial-nomination-warns-of-public-distrust\/","title":{"rendered":"ADC Rejects Yakubu\u2019s Ambassadorial Nomination, Warns of Public Distrust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has criticised the inclusion of former INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s latest list of ambassadorial nominees, saying the move could further erode public confidence in Nigeria\u2019s electoral system.<\/p>\n<p>ADC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, described the nomination as \u201cembarrassingly insensitive,\u201d noting that Yakubu only recently oversaw the disputed 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The party argued that elevating an immediate past electoral umpire to a diplomatic post blurs the line between neutrality and political reward, setting a troubling precedent.<\/p>\n<p>It urged Yakubu to decline the offer and called on the Senate to reject the appointment if he does not, insisting that electoral integrity must be protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has criticised the inclusion of former INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s latest list of ambassadorial nominees, saying the move could further erode public confidence in Nigeria\u2019s electoral system. ADC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, described the nomination as \u201cembarrassingly insensitive,\u201d noting that Yakubu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2027-general-elections","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79493","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=79493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79495,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79493\/revisions\/79495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}