{"id":169919,"date":"2025-07-17T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:54:43","slug":"2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide","title":{"rendered":"2027 Coalition Urged to Avoid Sycophancy by Atiku&#8217;s Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Special Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Media, Paul Ibe, has asked the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, to quit.<\/p>\n<p>Ibe made this statement on Thursday when he featured on The Morning Brief, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming after Keyamo faulted former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for announcing his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with a letter bearing Nigeria\u2019s Coat of Arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere was Keyamo when Atiku Abubakar was in the frontline battling the military and eventually, with other compatriots, able to get them out? Where was he? He is just playing to the gallery. Sycophancy is the end game,\u201d Ibe said.<\/p>\n<p>Ibe criticised the claim of impersonation levelled against Atiku by Keyamo over the use of the Nigerian Coat of Arms logo in his correspondences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is impersonating anybody. Atiku Abubakar is a former Vice President. That is known. I don\u2019t want to dignify him (Keyamo). He can go to court if he wants to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku dumped the PDP on Wednesday, predicating his resignation on the trajectory the party has taken.<\/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. Special Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Media, Paul Ibe, has asked the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, to quit. Ibe made this statement on Thursday when he featured on The Morning Brief, a programme on Channels Television. This is coming after Keyamo faulted former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[18045,316,297,254],"class_list":["post-169919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-2027-coalition","tag-atiku","tag-keyamo","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>2027 Coalition Urged to Avoid Sycophancy by Atiku&#039;s Aide - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Special Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Media, Paul Ibe, has asked the Minister of Aviation, Festus K ...\" \/>\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\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027 Coalition Urged to Avoid Sycophancy by Atiku&#039;s Aide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Special Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Media, Paul Ibe, has asked the Minister of Aviation, Festus K ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-17T16:50:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-17T17:54:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752762390.494811.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"518\" \/>\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\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027 Coalition Urged to Avoid Sycophancy by Atiku&#8217;s Aide\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-17T16:50:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-17T17:54:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide\"},\"wordCount\":204,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752762390.494811.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2027 coalition\",\"Atiku\",\"Keyamo\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-coalition-urged-to-avoid-sycophancy-by-atikus-aide\",\"name\":\"2027 Coalition Urged to Avoid Sycophancy by Atiku's Aide - 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