{"id":145472,"date":"2025-01-08T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-stop-dreaming-of-presidency-tinubu-will-rule-till-2031-igbokwe-tells-obi-atiku-others"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:10:21","slug":"2027-stop-dreaming-of-presidency-tinubu-will-rule-till-2031-igbokwe-tells-obi-atiku-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-stop-dreaming-of-presidency-tinubu-will-rule-till-2031-igbokwe-tells-obi-atiku-others","title":{"rendered":"2027: Stop dreaming of presidency, Tinubu will rule till 2031 \u2013 Igbokwe tells Obi, Atiku, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ahead of the 2027 general elections, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Joe Igbokwe, has urged those aspiring for the presidency to perish the thought.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid speculations that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, are teaming up to sack President Bola Tinubu in the coming election.<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by Igbokwe on his official Facebook page warned those nursing presidential ambitions to desist, stating that Tinubu would remain Nigeria\u2019s president until 2031.<\/p>\n<p>According to Igbokwe, the president needs a second term to enable him to \u201cset the records straight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cIf any presidential aspirant is dreaming of winning presidential elections in 2027, I will advise that candidate to perish the thought till 2031.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPBAT is destined to remain in the seat of power till 2031. 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