{"id":167722,"date":"2025-06-30T18:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain"},"modified":"2025-06-30T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:01:16","slug":"ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain","title":{"rendered":"Ganduje: No cause for alarm, APC intact \u2013 Chieftain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former two-term Lagos lawmaker, Mr Olusegun Olulade, says opposition parties should not rejoice over the resignation of APC National Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos, Olulade said Ganduje\u2019s resignation was not an indication that the ruling party was in crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He said the former party chairman resigned based on health grounds and urged opposition leaders to stop reading negative meanings to the development.<\/p>\n<p>Olulade, Executive Director at Galaxy Backbone Limited, said the party remained strong and was confident of defeating all opponents in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing to be afraid of; our party is getting stronger and sailing to victory in 2027.There is no crisis in the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGanduje has come out to say his resignation was on the health grounds. He is not fighting, there is no crisis in APC; our party is strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing to worry about, in fact we are comfortable as a party, we are good, we are sailing on top in APC, we are not worried,\u201d Olulade said.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing Ganduje well in future endeavours, Olulade said that the former ruling party chairman had written his name in gold by the bold step.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is rare in politics that someone will resign on health grounds. Ganduje has written his name in gold for taking that commendable decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party has been growing in leaps and bounds and getting stronger. In fact, it is the opposition that is afraid now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have any reason to panic.The party remains strong despite Ganduje\u2019s resignation,\u201d Olulade said.<\/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 former two-term Lagos lawmaker, Mr Olusegun Olulade, says opposition parties should not rejoice over the resignation of APC National Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje. Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos, Olulade said Ganduje\u2019s resignation was not an indication that the ruling party was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,1022,254],"class_list":["post-167722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-ganduje","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>Ganduje: No cause for alarm, APC intact \u2013 Chieftain - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A former two-term Lagos lawmaker, Mr Olusegun Olulade, says opposition parties should not rejoice over the resignation o ...\" \/>\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\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ganduje: No cause for alarm, APC intact \u2013 Chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A former two-term Lagos lawmaker, Mr Olusegun Olulade, says opposition parties should not rejoice over the resignation o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-30T17:39:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-30T19:01:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1751297556.682416.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"796\" \/>\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\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ganduje: No cause for alarm, APC intact \u2013 Chieftain\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-30T17:39:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-30T19:01:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain\"},\"wordCount\":287,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1751297556.682416.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Ganduje\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ganduje-no-cause-for-alarm-apc-intact-chieftain\",\"name\":\"Ganduje: No cause for alarm, APC intact \u2013 Chieftain - 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