{"id":81907,"date":"2026-01-19T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81907"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:54:00","slug":"nwajiuba-declares-2027-presidential-bid-on-adc-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/19\/nwajiuba-declares-2027-presidential-bid-on-adc-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Nwajiuba Declares 2027 Presidential Bid on ADC Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of State for Education and ex-member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has declared his intention to contest the 2027 presidential election on the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p>Nwajiuba, who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari, said Nigeria needs leadership anchored on clear policies, strategic negotiation and strong grassroots structures to address its political and socio-economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by his office on Monday, January 19, he said his experience in both the legislative and executive arms of government has equipped him with a solid understanding of governance and public administration.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister is expected to centre his campaign on education reform, economic stabilisation and restoring public trust in government institutions. A lawyer called to the Bar in 1989, Nwajiuba also previously served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).<\/p>\n<p>His declaration places him among a growing list of aspirants positioning ahead of the 2027 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Former Minister of State for Education and ex-member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has declared his intention to contest the 2027 presidential election on the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Nwajiuba, who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari, said Nigeria needs leadership anchored on clear policies, strategic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81907","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\/81907","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=81907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81909,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81907\/revisions\/81909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}