{"id":160526,"date":"2025-04-27T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:01:23","slug":"im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m not joining Atiku\u2019s coalition\u2019 \u2013 Yobe Gov, Buni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni says he is not joining the opposition leaders\u2019 coalition being spearheaded by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement by the Director-General, Press and Media Affairs, Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, on Saturday in Damaturu, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>A viral text message had claimed that Buni and four other APC governors had concluded arrangements to defect to the opposition PDP and join the coalition before the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Mohammed described the viral message as baseless fabrications, unwarranted imagination and assumptions that did not cross path with reality in any way, shape and form.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, at no time was the author of the text ever been close to the governor to think that he could attempt to predict the governor\u2019s political movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuni is no ordinary member of APC; he is not just an APC governor. He is APC in all ramifications, with APC flowing in his veins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis contributions to building APC as a two-term National Secretary and National Chairman who chaired the party\u2019s convention committee makes him unique and whose imagination of leaving the party cannot be speculated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that the author and his paymasters must have been interested in Buni\u2019s political sagacity and only wished they would have the likes of the governor, adding that it must be wishful thinking.<\/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. Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni says he is not joining the opposition leaders\u2019 coalition being spearheaded by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. This was contained in a statement by the Director-General, Press and Media Affairs, Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, on Saturday in Damaturu, the state capital. A viral text message had claimed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":160525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[316,1654,254,334],"class_list":["post-160526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-atiku","tag-buni","tag-nigeria","tag-yobe"],"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>\u2018I\u2019m not joining Atiku\u2019s coalition\u2019 \u2013 Yobe Gov, Buni - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni says he is not joining the opposition leaders\u2019 coalition being spearheaded by former ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018I\u2019m not joining Atiku\u2019s coalition\u2019 \u2013 Yobe Gov, Buni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni says he is not joining the opposition leaders\u2019 coalition being spearheaded by former ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-27T11:04:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-28T18:01:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745743050.947797.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u2018I\u2019m not joining Atiku\u2019s coalition\u2019 \u2013 Yobe Gov, Buni\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-27T11:04:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-28T18:01:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni\"},\"wordCount\":250,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745743050.947797.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atiku\",\"Buni\",\"Nigeria\",\"Yobe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-not-joining-atikus-coalition-yobe-gov-buni\",\"name\":\"\u2018I\u2019m not joining Atiku\u2019s coalition\u2019 \u2013 Yobe Gov, Buni - 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