{"id":82488,"date":"2026-02-07T07:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82488"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:11:57","slug":"nigerias-2027-polls-a-battle-for-peoples-voice-oyegun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/07\/nigerias-2027-polls-a-battle-for-peoples-voice-oyegun\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s 2027 Polls a Battle for People\u2019s Voice -Oyegun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and chairman of the Policy Manifesto Committee of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has described the 2027 general elections as a decisive struggle between ordinary Nigerians and entrenched political forces.<\/p>\n<p>Oyegun said the polls would go beyond a routine change of leadership, but serve as a referendum on governance and citizens\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke amid growing public discontent over economic hardship, insecurity and other governance challenges, which analysts say are likely to shape voter sentiment and campaign narratives ahead of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and chairman of the Policy Manifesto Committee of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has described the 2027 general elections as a decisive struggle between ordinary Nigerians and entrenched political forces. Oyegun said the polls would go beyond a routine change of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2027-general-elections","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82488","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=82488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82490,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82488\/revisions\/82490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}