{"id":159760,"date":"2025-04-17T11:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-buharis-man-farouk-aliyu-speaks-on-cpc-bloc-dumping-apc"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:17:50","slug":"2027-buharis-man-farouk-aliyu-speaks-on-cpc-bloc-dumping-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-buharis-man-farouk-aliyu-speaks-on-cpc-bloc-dumping-apc","title":{"rendered":"2027: Buhari\u2019s man, Farouk Aliyu speaks on CPC bloc dumping APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Farouk Aliyu, former President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s close ally, has said there was no plans for the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, bloc to exit the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu, who said he is one of the members of Buhari\u2019s cabal, is certain the CPC bloc within the APC was going nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today programme on Wednesday, saying it was just a mere speculation.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIt\u2019s not true; there is nothing like members of the defunct CPC wants to move out of APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur certificate, the certificate of CPC, was part of what formed APC. So, how can we leave? To go where? This is our party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The APC chieftain, who was a former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, said Buhari did not endorse former Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai\u2019s dumping of the APC.<\/p>\n<p>He said El-Rufai should not bring down the roof because he did not get a ministerial appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu, however, urged the APC leadership to engage all blocs within the ruling party to whittle competition and strife before the next poll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitics is about engagement. Politics is about the interests of groups, people, and so on. That is what we are saying: engage more; not only with people from the defunct CPC, but even from the PDP. So that in 2027, there will be less competition,\u201d the Jigawa power broker said.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu said the APC won\u2019t \u201cjust sit by and allow\u201d the Atiku Abubakar-led coalition \u201cto take over the government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are strange bedfellows,\u201d he said, adding that the selection of a presidential candidate would thwart the Atiku coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that in 2013, the Muhammadu Buhari-led CPC, Bola Tinubu\u2019s Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, came together to form the APC.<\/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. Farouk Aliyu, former President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s close ally, has said there was no plans for the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, bloc to exit the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Aliyu, who said he is one of the members of Buhari\u2019s cabal, is certain the CPC bloc within the APC was going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":159759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[13554,34,1258,7847,254],"class_list":["post-159760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-13554","tag-apc","tag-cpc","tag-farouk-aliyu","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2027: Buhari\u2019s man, Farouk Aliyu speaks on CPC bloc dumping APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-buharis-man-farouk-aliyu-speaks-on-cpc-bloc-dumping-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: Buhari\u2019s man, Farouk Aliyu speaks on CPC bloc dumping APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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