{"id":80399,"date":"2025-12-17T05:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80399"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:37:14","slug":"apc-chieftain-says-most-buhari-era-ministers-deserve-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/17\/apc-chieftain-says-most-buhari-era-ministers-deserve-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Chieftain Says Most Buhari-Era Ministers Deserve Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alwan Hassan, has sparked controversy after claiming that about 95 per cent of ministers who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari should be in jail over alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan made the remarks on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Tuesday, where he criticised the conduct of most Buhari-era ministers, describing their eight-year tenure as characterised by unchecked power and weak oversight.<\/p>\n<p>He said only about five per cent of the ministers deserved commendation.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, many former ministers operated with little supervision, leading to what he described as widespread corruption.<\/p>\n<p>He also referenced comments previously attributed to Buhari on the need for accountability among his appointees.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come amid renewed scrutiny of several former ministers and top officials, with ongoing corruption investigations and legal proceedings linked to past administrations.<\/p>\n<p>However, critics argue that sweeping allegations risk politicising anti-corruption efforts and reflect growing divisions within the APC as the country moves towards the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alwan Hassan, has sparked controversy after claiming that about 95 per cent of ministers who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari should be in jail over alleged misconduct. Hassan made the remarks on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Tuesday, where he criticised the conduct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80399","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\/80399","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80401,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80399\/revisions\/80401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}