{"id":171299,"date":"2025-07-25T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:31:36","slug":"tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu, APC North\u2019s shortest route to power \u2013 Fayose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu is the shortest route for power to return to the North.<\/p>\n<p>Fayose made the disclosure during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that Tinubu had once informed him that the APC represented the shortest distance between the North and the South.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fayose: \u201cI recalled he told me that the shortest distance between the North and the South is APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not understand at the time because he told me that after Buhari\u2019s four years, anybody should be able to wait for another four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo zoning to the South by PDP is good for them because today Tinubu is the shortest distance for power to return to the North.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn if I should be trusted or not, I don\u2019t have to be trusted because that is their problem. When I came here I said the party was already going into carcass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretenders can pretend but you know that managing the party has become an issue, everybody in that party today is doing to your tent, o Israel.\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 governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu is the shortest route for power to return to the North. Fayose made the disclosure during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Friday. He recalled that Tinubu had once informed him that the APC represented the shortest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":171298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,224,254,945],"class_list":["post-171299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-fayose","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"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>Tinubu, APC North\u2019s shortest route to power \u2013 Fayose - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu is the shortest route for power ...\" \/>\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\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu, APC North\u2019s shortest route to power \u2013 Fayose\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu is the shortest route for power ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-25T22:22:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-25T23:31:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753473798.561852.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\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=\"2 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\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu, APC North\u2019s shortest route to power \u2013 Fayose\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-25T22:22:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-25T23:31:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose\"},\"wordCount\":212,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753473798.561852.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Fayose\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/tinubu-apc-norths-shortest-route-to-power-fayose\",\"name\":\"Tinubu, APC North\u2019s shortest route to power \u2013 Fayose - 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