{"id":171388,"date":"2025-07-27T20:46:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:18:40","slug":"adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"Adeyanju: Only Jonathan Can Defeat Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Human rights activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has said the former Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi won\u2019t be voted even if he swears in a shrine to be president for just one term.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyanju made the remark while noting that the only Southerner who can defeat President Bola Tinubu is former President Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Obi said he was willing to be president for just one term and handover power to the North.<\/p>\n<p>Obi, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi are lead contenders for the coalition\u2019s presidential ticket.<\/p>\n<p>But, none of them have declared their intentions to run yet.<\/p>\n<p>However, Adeyanju said Northerners won\u2019t believe Obi to uphold any agreement that he would be president for just one term.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Arise Television, Adeyanju said: \u201cI have said it publicly and I want to reiterate it that even if a Southerner were to contest, the only person who stands the chance of defeating Tinubu is Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is because he just has only one more term. And as for Obi, it\u2019s not a thing of agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if he swears in a shrine, they will not believe him and they will not vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see any Southerner candidate that can defeat Bola Tinubu, I don\u2019t see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if Atiku steps down he could support a younger Northerner, support somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that it must always be me, it does not have to always be you on the stage, you can be off the stage and be supporting somebody that is standing on the stage.\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. Human rights activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has said the former Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi won\u2019t be voted even if he swears in a shrine to be president for just one term. Adeyanju made the remark while noting that the only Southerner who can defeat President Bola Tinubu is former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":171387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[4606,1635,254,222,945],"class_list":["post-171388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adeyanju","tag-jonathan","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","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>Adeyanju: Only Jonathan Can Defeat Tinubu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Human rights activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has said the former Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi wo ...\" \/>\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\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adeyanju: Only Jonathan Can Defeat Tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Human rights activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has said the former Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi wo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-27T19:46:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-27T21:18:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753638634.243796.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1016\" \/>\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\/policy\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Adeyanju: Only Jonathan Can Defeat Tinubu\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-27T19:46:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-27T21:18:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu\"},\"wordCount\":295,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753638634.243796.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adeyanju\",\"jonathan\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeyanju-only-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu\",\"name\":\"Adeyanju: Only Jonathan Can Defeat Tinubu - 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