{"id":169807,"date":"2025-07-16T21:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:37:45","slug":"atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka","title":{"rendered":"Atiku&#8217;s Selfish Presidential Ambition Says APC&#8217;s Morka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Felix Morka, has criticised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku on Wednesday dumped the PDP, predicating his resignation on the trajectory the party has taken.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting in a post via X on Wednesday, the APC spokesman said Atiku is driven solely by his selfish and obsessive presidential ambition, adding that he is never willing to commit to the hard work of building his party or resolving its internal crises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet again, Atiku uses his revolving door out of the PDP, for the third time all in his desperate but ever elusive search for the presidential Golden Fleece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndisputably, the weakest link in Nigeria\u2019s partisan democracy, Atiku is driven only by his selfish and obsessive presidential ambition never willing to put in the work to build his party or remain to solve its internal crises but claims a birthright entitlement to presidential ticket of his party to the exclusion of all others. Congratulations, Nigeria\u2019s incomparable political wanderer,\u201d Morka wrote.<\/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. The National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Felix Morka, has criticised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Atiku on Wednesday dumped the PDP, predicating his resignation on the trajectory the party has taken. Reacting in a post via X on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,316,7352,254],"class_list":["post-169807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-atiku","tag-felix-morka","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>Atiku&#039;s Selfish Presidential Ambition Says APC&#039;s Morka - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Felix Morka, has criticised former Vice P ...\" \/>\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\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku&#039;s Selfish Presidential Ambition Says APC&#039;s Morka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Felix Morka, has criticised former Vice P ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-16T20:28:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-16T21:37:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752689306.603622.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\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\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atiku&#8217;s Selfish Presidential Ambition Says APC&#8217;s Morka\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-16T20:28:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-16T21:37:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka\"},\"wordCount\":200,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752689306.603622.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Atiku\",\"Felix Morka\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atikus-selfish-presidential-ambition-says-apcs-morka\",\"name\":\"Atiku's Selfish Presidential Ambition Says APC's Morka - 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