{"id":81813,"date":"2026-01-18T06:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81813"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:13:16","slug":"2027-kano-apc-denies-meeting-gov-yusuf-over-automatic-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/18\/2027-kano-apc-denies-meeting-gov-yusuf-over-automatic-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Kano APC Denies Meeting Gov Yusuf Over Automatic Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has denied reports that it held meetings with Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf over an alleged plan to secure him an automatic governorship ticket ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s state secretary, Alhaji Zakari Sarina, described the reports as baseless and misleading, accusing unnamed actors of spreading rumours to create political tension in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a telephone interview, Sarina said the APC had never discussed any automatic ticket arrangement with the governor.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that while the party would welcome Yusuf if he chose to defect, no talks or assurances had taken place.<\/p>\n<p>Sarina urged party members and the public to ignore the speculation, adding that the APC remains focused on unity, governance and development in Kano State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has denied reports that it held meetings with Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf over an alleged plan to secure him an automatic governorship ticket ahead of the 2027 elections. The party\u2019s state secretary, Alhaji Zakari Sarina, described the reports as baseless and misleading, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81813","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\/81813","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=81813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81815,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81813\/revisions\/81815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}