{"id":150228,"date":"2025-02-13T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-no-vacancy-in-aso-rock-osita-okechukwu-backs-tinubu"},"modified":"2025-02-16T00:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T23:13:27","slug":"2027-no-vacancy-in-aso-rock-osita-okechukwu-backs-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-no-vacancy-in-aso-rock-osita-okechukwu-backs-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"2027: No vacancy in Aso Rock \u2013 Osita Okechukwu backs Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, on Thursday warned the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and other intending candidates that there is \u201cno vacancy\u201d in the presidential villa in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu said nobody should fault the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, for stating that there is no vacancy in Aso Rock in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists in Abuja, the former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) said the blame should go to \u201cAtiku and his cohorts in the PDP who erroneously breached the rotation convention, which governs the 4th Republic of Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the \u201cerroneous breach of the rotation convention had divided the PDP irretrievably, albeit producing the Wike masquerade, which cannot be easily wiped off or lashed off the party\u2019s bone marrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu said it will be difficult for the PDP to play a robust role as the foremost opposition party in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the PDP will not succumb to a second role in a merger like the defunct ACN due to the greed of their leaders, which confirms the ancient maxim, \u201cdivided we fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu said: \u201cThe erroneous breach of the rotation convention, a ligament holding our fledgling democracy together in the 2023 presidential election, is the PDP\u2019s biggest miscalculation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rotation fire is raging and may not be quenched before 2027. The ugly outcome scenario sounds like the local clincher of the advisory song of the birds to the Reverend Father during Mass, that the big men seated in the altar front row are all the same character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also dissuaded those opposing Tinubu from running for a second term due to Nigeria\u2019s economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p>The former DG assured that the economic hardship will ease before the 2027 presidential election because some of Tinubu\u2019s economic policies will start bearing positive fruits.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the president has prepared the grounds for Foreign Direct Investments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truism is that President Tinubu has done well diplomatically; he is a friend of the West and a friend of the East. This means that he has the support of the international community to cushion the rough economic edges with Foreign Direct Investments and loan-backed projects,\u201d Okechukwu added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, on Thursday warned the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and other intending candidates that there is \u201cno vacancy\u201d in the presidential villa in 2027. 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