{"id":164556,"date":"2025-05-27T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:14:11","slug":"2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement","title":{"rendered":"2027: Malami under fire for criticizing APC\u2019s endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The lawmaker representing Ilaje\/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency of Ondo State, Donald Ojogo, has slammed former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, over his criticism of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for endorsing President Bola Tinubu for a second term amid national hardship.<\/p>\n<p>Malami, speaking at a meeting of the National Political Consultative Group (North) in Abuja, had accused the APC of neglecting critical national issues while endorsing Tinubu for the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a few days ago, the ruling party held its national summit and, instead of tackling pressing issues like insecurity, economic hardship, and rising poverty, it chose to focus on politics by endorsing President Tinubu for re-election, even though the election is still two years away,\u201d Malami stated.<\/p>\n<p>Responding swiftly in a statement, Ojogo described Malami\u2019s remarks as hypocritical and mischievous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a federal lawmaker, I speak not on behalf of the Presidency nor as a party spokesperson, but I cannot ignore Malami\u2019s audacious mischief, especially considering his controversial role during the Buhari administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalami\u2019s comments are laughably hypocritical. If he assumes Nigerians have forgotten his actions as AGF, he underestimates our memory. His tenure was riddled with contradictions to the very principles he now pretends to defend,\u201d Ojogo said.<\/p>\n<p>The federal lawmaker also accused Malami of being a major obstacle to security efforts in the South-West during his time in office, particularly under the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu\u2019s administration in Ondo State, where he (Ojogo) served as Commissioner for Information and Orientation.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, but for the boldness of Akeredolu and other Southern governors who ignored Malami\u2019s objections, the spate of kidnappings and killings in the region would have worsened.<\/p>\n<p>He further blasted Malami\u2019s opposition to state police and what he described as his jaundiced view of federalism.<\/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. The lawmaker representing Ilaje\/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency of Ondo State, Donald Ojogo, has slammed former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, over his criticism of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for endorsing President Bola Tinubu for a second term amid national hardship. Malami, speaking at a meeting of the National Political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,1104,254,945],"class_list":["post-164556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-malami","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"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: Malami under fire for criticizing APC\u2019s endorsement - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The lawmaker representing Ilaje\/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency of Ondo State, Donald Ojogo, has slammed former Attorney Ge ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: Malami under fire for criticizing APC\u2019s endorsement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The lawmaker representing Ilaje\/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency of Ondo State, Donald Ojogo, has slammed former Attorney Ge ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-27T20:57:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-27T22:14:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748371509.656434.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"692\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: Malami under fire for criticizing APC\u2019s endorsement\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-27T20:57:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-27T22:14:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement\"},\"wordCount\":319,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748371509.656434.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Malami\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-malami-under-fire-for-criticizing-apcs-endorsement\",\"name\":\"2027: Malami under fire for criticizing APC\u2019s endorsement - 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