{"id":174339,"date":"2025-08-14T21:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:46:28","slug":"nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027","title":{"rendered":"Nasarawa Gov Sule Denies Anointing Aspirant for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State says he has no preferred candidate among the governorship aspirants for the 2027 election in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said he would only back a candidate with the capacity to sustain his development strides in the state beyond 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Sule disclosed this on Thursday in Lafia while hosting members of the Forum of Former Local Government Council Chairmen, FFLGCC, alongside members of the Forum of Former Local Government Councillors, FFLGC, in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said his administration had done a great deal to develop the state.<\/p>\n<p>The governor dismissed insinuations that he was backing any of the 28 governorship aspirants seeking to succeed him in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>He specifically refuted claims that he had a preferred governorship aspirants, describing such assertions as mere speculation.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cThat is why, if anybody tells you that I am supporting this person or that person, it\u2019s just grammar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201d People are just telling their stories. At one time, they said I was supporting the Accountant General. Then, at another point, they said it is Wadada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, at one point, they said it is Faisal. If you see people running back and forth like this, you know there is no truth in any of this. It is just speculation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said he would only support the aspirant who had the capacity to sustain the development strides of his administration.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the state has enormous potentialities, adding that he would only support that aspirant who had the capacity to explore these potentialities.<\/p>\n<p>The governor assured of his administration\u2019s continued commitment to key into positive policies and programmes that would have direct bearing on the lives of the people of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, leaders of the delegation, Mr Musa Adamu Sa\u2019idu of the FFLGCC and Mr Hashimu Abubakar, leader of theFFLGC, commended the governor for his sterling leadership and for carrying the people of the state along.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the forums pledged their continued loyalty and support for the success of Sule\u2019s administration.<\/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. Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State says he has no preferred candidate among the governorship aspirants for the 2027 election in the state. The governor said he would only back a candidate with the capacity to sustain his development strides in the state beyond 2027. Sule disclosed this on Thursday in Lafia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1238,1164,254,7537],"class_list":["post-174339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abdullahi-sule","tag-nasarawa","tag-nigeria","tag-sule"],"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>Nasarawa Gov Sule Denies Anointing Aspirant for 2027 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State says he has no preferred candidate among the governorship aspirants for the 20 ...\" \/>\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\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nasarawa Gov Sule Denies Anointing Aspirant for 2027\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State says he has no preferred candidate among the governorship aspirants for the 20 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T20:28:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T21:46:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755195533.768671.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"412\" \/>\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\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nasarawa Gov Sule Denies Anointing Aspirant for 2027\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-14T20:28:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-14T21:46:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027\"},\"wordCount\":356,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755195533.768671.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abdullahi Sule\",\"Nasarawa\",\"Nigeria\",\"sule\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nasarawa-gov-sule-denies-anointing-aspirant-for-2027\",\"name\":\"Nasarawa Gov Sule Denies Anointing Aspirant for 2027 - 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