{"id":171672,"date":"2025-07-29T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:15:24","slug":"2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku","title":{"rendered":"2027: Coalition not about anyone but Nigeria \u2013 Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stated the reason for the formation of the opposition coalition led by the African Democratic Congress, ADC.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku said that the rationale behind the coalition\u2019s emergence is to rescue Nigeria\u2019s democracy from what he described as the ruling party\u2019s creeping authoritarianism and manipulation of the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 PDP presidential candidate added that the coalition is not centred on individual political gladiators like himself, Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi, or Nasir El-Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>There is speculation making the rounds that there is an imminent battle for the coalition\u2019s 2027 presidential ticket among the political figures.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this goal is centred on protecting the integrity of Nigeria\u2019s democracy, which, according to him, is under threat from the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not an anti-Tinubu project; it is a pro-Nigerian movement. Nigerians must be the ultimate beneficiaries of this effort,\u201d he stated.<\/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 Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stated the reason for the formation of the opposition coalition led by the African Democratic Congress, ADC. Atiku said that the rationale behind the coalition\u2019s emergence is to rescue Nigeria\u2019s democracy from what he described as the ruling party\u2019s creeping authoritarianism and manipulation of the electoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":171671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[316,254],"class_list":["post-171672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-atiku","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 not about anyone but Nigeria \u2013 Atiku - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stated the reason for the formation of the opposition coalition led by the Afri ...\" \/>\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\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: Coalition not about anyone but Nigeria \u2013 Atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stated the reason for the formation of the opposition coalition led by the Afri ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-29T11:11:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-29T12:15:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753778837.991102.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\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\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: Coalition not about anyone but Nigeria \u2013 Atiku\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-29T11:11:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-29T12:15:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku\"},\"wordCount\":172,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753778837.991102.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atiku\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-coalition-not-about-anyone-but-nigeria-atiku\",\"name\":\"2027: Coalition not about anyone but Nigeria \u2013 Atiku - 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