{"id":81232,"date":"2026-01-06T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81232"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:23:57","slug":"atiku-no-adc-aspirant-will-step-down-ahead-of-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/06\/atiku-no-adc-aspirant-will-step-down-ahead-of-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku: No ADC Aspirant Will Step Down Ahead of 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said no aspirant in the African Democratic Congress (ADC) will be pressured to step down ahead of the 2027 presidential election, stressing that the party will allow a free and competitive process.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Tuesday by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, Atiku dismissed speculations that he was being urged to withdraw from the race in favour of a Southern candidate, urging Nigerians to resist what he described as attempts by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to weaken the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku said the ADC was formed as a platform for national rescue, accusing President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration of economic hardship, shrinking democratic space and efforts to impose a one party system.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that individuals linked to the Presidency were interfering in the ADC\u2019s internal affairs, particularly the selection of a presidential candidate, describing such actions as intimidation and sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>The former Vice President maintained that the ADC remains committed to transparency, inclusiveness and internal democracy, noting that the party is focused on strengthening its structures nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed that all qualified aspirants would be allowed to contest freely, insisting that no external pressure would derail the party\u2019s mission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata\u00a0 Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said no aspirant in the African Democratic Congress (ADC) will be pressured to step down ahead of the 2027 presidential election, stressing that the party will allow a free and competitive process. In a statement issued on Tuesday by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, Atiku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81232","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\/81232","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=81232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81257,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81232\/revisions\/81257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}