{"id":177562,"date":"2025-09-04T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:42:56","slug":"tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Smiling at Divided Northern Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said President Bola Tinubu is likely unbothered by those declaring their intentions to challenge him in the 2027 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Jibrin, speaking on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, said Tinubu must be \u201csitting somewhere and smiling\u201d because of the disunity among northern politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve always done, if anybody rises up in the north, we gang up to bring the person down. This is what has been happening. And I\u2019m pretty sure those who said they are going to contest, or even to be specific, the Bola Tinubu that some are saying they are going to contest against, or defeat him, must be smiling because he can see how disunited we are,\u201d Jibrin said.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled how former Vice President Atiku Abubakar clashed with then-President Olusegun Obasanjo, partly because of opposition from northern politicians who resisted his attempt at regional leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Jibrin added that former Vice President Namadi Sambo and current Vice President Kashim Shettima had also faced similar challenges from the region.<\/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. A member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said President Bola Tinubu is likely unbothered by those declaring their intentions to challenge him in the 2027 general election. Jibrin, speaking on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, said Tinubu must be \u201csitting somewhere and smiling\u201d because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[6605,254,945],"class_list":["post-177562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abdulmumin-jibrin","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 Smiling at Divided Northern Politicians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said President Bola Tinubu is likely unbothered by thos ...\" \/>\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\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu Smiling at Divided Northern Politicians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said President Bola Tinubu is likely unbothered by thos ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T06:40:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T07:42:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756959361.957096.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\/policy\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu Smiling at Divided Northern Politicians\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-04T06:40:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-04T07:42:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians\"},\"wordCount\":197,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756959361.957096.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abdulmumin Jibrin\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-smiling-at-divided-northern-politicians\",\"name\":\"Tinubu Smiling at Divided Northern Politicians - 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