{"id":168892,"date":"2025-07-09T22:08:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:14:29","slug":"adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi","title":{"rendered":"ADC Coalition Not Centered Around Atiku Obi Amaechi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has disclosed that the African Democratic Congress, ADC, coalition is not about former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi or Rotimi Amaechi.<\/p>\n<p>Lawal said Atiku, Obiband Amaechi have been advised to work together irrespective of their political ambition.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the aim of the coalition is to pull resources together towards ensuring the defeat of President Bola Tinubu in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with TVC, Lawal insisted that the three eminent politicians understand the task.<\/p>\n<p>The former SGF said Atiku, Obi Amaechi and their groups will team up with other members of the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Lawal said: \u201cThe coalition is not about Atiku. I\u2019ve attended meetings tilted towards Obi, Atiku and Amaechi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtiku has never spoken in all our meetings, except the last meeting, where he was asked to speak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi understands that with his Obedient movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmaechi understands, and Atiku too; we must have a coalition, get together, join forces, join ideas, and work to defeat this government.\u201d<\/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. Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has disclosed that the African Democratic Congress, ADC, coalition is not about former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi or Rotimi Amaechi. Lawal said Atiku, Obiband Amaechi have been advised to work together irrespective of their political ambition. He explained that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[118,250,316,7446,254,222],"class_list":["post-168892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc","tag-amaechi","tag-atiku","tag-babachir-lawal","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi"],"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>ADC Coalition Not Centered Around Atiku Obi Amaechi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has disclosed that the African Democratic Con ...\" \/>\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\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ADC Coalition Not Centered Around Atiku Obi Amaechi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has disclosed that the African Democratic Con ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-09T21:08:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-09T22:14:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752086766.882353.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"775\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"434\" \/>\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\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ADC Coalition Not Centered Around Atiku Obi Amaechi\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-09T21:08:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-09T22:14:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752086766.882353.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"Amaechi\",\"Atiku\",\"Babachir Lawal\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-coalition-not-centered-around-atiku-obi-amaechi\",\"name\":\"ADC Coalition Not Centered Around Atiku Obi Amaechi - 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