{"id":168084,"date":"2025-07-02T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:00:17","slug":"nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Under Civilian Dictatorship Atiku\u2019s Aide Paul Ibeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Paul Ibeh, an aide of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, says the administration of President Bola Tnubu is a civilian dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Ibeh made this statement on Wednesday when he appeared as a guest on \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>He said that major opposition leaders, including Abubakar, who was the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, were being urged to redeem the country from its current state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtiku Abubakar and other leaders are also once again being called upon to redeem Nigeria because what we are having right now is a civilian dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we had then in 1996 and the rest of them, you know, was a military dictatorship, and these people are probably wearing \u2018agbada\u2019 and suit and all of that, but they are no different. They are even worse than the military dictatorship,\u201d Ibeh said.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was no reason why members of the coalition could not remain in the PDP, since the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, could work with the government of President Tinubu while being a member of the opposition PDP.<\/p>\n<p>On whether Atiku could emerge as the sole candidate of the coalition, amid the issue of zoning, he said, \u201cThis coalition will stand to benefit from all of the experiences that he has had over the years. So, they are not focused on who will be the presidential candidate and all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ibeh further dismisses claims that Atiku ran the PDP into a crisis, following the party\u2019s primary for the 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Wike lost in an open presidential primary to Atiku, but rather than work for the PDP, worked against the party in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused the minister of scuttling efforts aimed at fixing the crisis in the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>A group of concerned leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Senate President David Mark, have asked Nigerians to join in helping to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>They made the call in Abuja on Tuesday after a closed-door meeting to discuss the state of the PDP and the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a communique\u0301 issued after the meeting, they called on all PDP members and Nigerians to come together in a broad coalition committed to national unity, democratic principles, security, economic recovery, and a strong fight against corruption.<\/p>\n<p>They emphasised the need for coalition and partnership to develop strategies that reflect both national and local political realities, in preparation for future elections.<\/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. Paul Ibeh, an aide of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, says the administration of President Bola Tnubu is a civilian dictatorship. Ibeh made this statement on Wednesday when he appeared as a guest on \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019, a programme on Channels Television. He said that major opposition leaders, including Abubakar, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[316,254,17890],"class_list":["post-168084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-atiku","tag-nigeria","tag-paul-ibeh"],"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>Nigeria Under Civilian Dictatorship Atiku\u2019s Aide Paul Ibeh - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paul Ibeh, an aide of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, says the administration of President Bola Tnubu is a civilia ...\" \/>\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\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria Under Civilian Dictatorship Atiku\u2019s Aide Paul Ibeh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paul Ibeh, an aide of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, says the administration of President Bola Tnubu is a civilia ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-02T12:52:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-02T14:00:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751452280.408166.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=\"3 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\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria Under Civilian Dictatorship Atiku\u2019s Aide Paul Ibeh\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-02T12:52:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-02T14:00:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh\"},\"wordCount\":439,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751452280.408166.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atiku\",\"Nigeria\",\"Paul ibeh\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/nigeria-under-civilian-dictatorship-atikus-aide-paul-ibeh\",\"name\":\"Nigeria Under Civilian Dictatorship Atiku\u2019s Aide Paul Ibeh - 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