{"id":168962,"date":"2025-07-10T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:51:54","slug":"ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims","title":{"rendered":"Ayekooto Responds to ADC Spokesman on APC Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ayekooto Akindele, has dismissed claims by the African Democratic Congress, ADC, alleging a plot by the Federal Government to clamp down on the opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>ADC, recently adopted by opposition figures ahead of the 2027 general elections, had in a statement issued by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, accused the Bola Tinubu-led administration of planning to undermine the party.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the allegation, Ayekooto, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), questioned why ADC continually points fingers at the APC-led government.<\/p>\n<p>In his words, \u201cWe in the APC, whenever we respond to the mushroom ADC, our haters say \u2018APC is panicking\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we all know who is afraid of its own shadows, they\u2019re not yet a party, yet, they\u2019re always pointing fingers at APC, the same thing they did when they were in PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to use them to catch cruises before their eventual demise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The APC stalwart\u2019s remarks come amid rising political tensions and alignments ahead of the next electoral cycle.<\/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 chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ayekooto Akindele, has dismissed claims by the African Democratic Congress, ADC, alleging a plot by the Federal Government to clamp down on the opposition party. ADC, recently adopted by opposition figures ahead of the 2027 general elections, had in a statement issued by its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[118,34,16389,254],"class_list":["post-168962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-adc","tag-apc","tag-ayekooto","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>Ayekooto Responds to ADC Spokesman on APC Claims - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ayekooto Akindele, has dismissed claims by 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\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ayekooto Responds to ADC Spokesman on APC Claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ayekooto Akindele, has dismissed claims by the African Democratic Con ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-10T10:46:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-10T11:51:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752135807.391874.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=\"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\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ayekooto Responds to ADC Spokesman on APC Claims\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-10T10:46:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-10T11:51:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752135807.391874.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"APC\",\"Ayekooto\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ayekooto-responds-to-adc-spokesman-on-apc-claims\",\"name\":\"Ayekooto Responds to ADC Spokesman on APC Claims - 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