{"id":167013,"date":"2025-06-15T18:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T17:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement"},"modified":"2025-06-15T20:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T19:28:01","slug":"crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement","title":{"rendered":"Crisis Looms in APC as Zulum Protests Tinubu Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Crisis is looming in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Sunday led a protest after the party\u2019s leaders endorsed President Bola Tinubu for reelection without including Vice President Kashim Shettima.<\/p>\n<p>APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, and National Vice Chairman (North-East), Comrade Mustapha Salihu, at a North-East stakeholders meeting in Gombe on Sunday, endorsed Tinubu for a second term without acknowledging Shettima.<\/p>\n<p>Ganduje and Salihu had to be escorted out of the venue under heavy security as delegates protested over their failure to endorse Shettima.<\/p>\n<p>Following the development, the meeting ended in chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, a public affairs analyst, Abdul-Aziz Na\u2019ibi Abubakar, said it could be the genesis of a crisis in the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beginning of the APC\u2019s downfall has just begun as Governor Zulum led a protest against the APC North-East meeting for failing to endorse Kashim Shettima ahead of 2027!\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier DAILY POST reported that there is tension in the North-East after APC stalwarts endorsed Tinubu, leaving out Shettima, who hails from Borno, a state in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, APC chairman Abdullahi Ganduje, at the party\u2019s national summit in Abuja, announced Tinubu as the sole presidential candidate in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Tinubu, in his Democracy Day remarks at the National Assembly last Thursday, mocked the opposition party for being in disarray.<\/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. Crisis is looming in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Sunday led a protest after the party\u2019s leaders endorsed President Bola Tinubu for reelection without including Vice President Kashim Shettima. APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, and National Vice Chairman (North-East), Comrade Mustapha Salihu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[13554,34,254,1837,945,1773],"class_list":["post-167013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-13554","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-shettima","tag-tinubu","tag-zulum"],"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>Crisis Looms in APC as Zulum Protests Tinubu Endorsement - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Crisis is looming in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Sunda ...\" \/>\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\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crisis Looms in APC as Zulum Protests Tinubu Endorsement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Crisis is looming in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Sunda ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-15T17:45:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-15T19:28:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1750003121.73224.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\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=\"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\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Crisis Looms in APC as Zulum Protests Tinubu Endorsement\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-15T17:45:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-15T19:28:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement\"},\"wordCount\":252,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1750003121.73224.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2027\",\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Shettima\",\"Tinubu\",\"Zulum\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/crisis-looms-in-apc-as-zulum-protests-tinubu-endorsement\",\"name\":\"Crisis Looms in APC as Zulum Protests Tinubu Endorsement - 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