{"id":79576,"date":"2025-12-02T14:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79576"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:41:36","slug":"atiku-meets-adc-leaders-in-abuja-calls-for-united-political-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/02\/atiku-meets-adc-leaders-in-abuja-calls-for-united-political-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Meets ADC Leaders in Abuja, Calls for United Political Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), to hasten their registration and join what he described as a collective mission to rescue Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku made the call on Monday when he met ADC state chairmen from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory at his Abuja residence.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation, led by Kogi State ADC Chairman Ogga Kingsley, visited to formally welcome him following his recent registration.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsley said the chairmen were delighted to receive Atiku as a \u201cbona fide member\u201d of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku, expressing satisfaction with his entry into the ADC, praised the chairmen for their dedication.<\/p>\n<p>He said they shared a common goal of building a secure and prosperous nation, stressing that no member could afford to \u201csit on the fence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He accused the ruling All Progressives Congress of damaging the country and vowed that the ADC and its allies were prepared to challenge them.<\/p>\n<p>The former presidential candidate disclosed details of the meeting in a post on his X handle on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>His engagement with party leaders comes days after he declared that \u201cthe real opposition has begun\u201d upon receiving his ADC membership card in Jada 1 Ward, Adamawa State.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku, who resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party in July over internal disagreements, urged his supporters nationwide to register with the ADC and join what he described as a new political front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), to hasten their registration and join what he described as a collective mission to rescue Nigeria. Atiku made the call on Monday when he met ADC state chairmen from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79576","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=79576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79578,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79576\/revisions\/79578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}