{"id":178024,"date":"2025-09-09T07:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:22:38","slug":"atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Promises to Defend Nigerians Against Tinubu&#8217;s Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed that the African Democratic Congress, ADC, coalition will not relent in defending Nigerians against President Bola Tinubu\u2019s anti-democratic forces.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku said the coalition will rescue Nigeria\u2019s democracy from emerging dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>These were assurances the former Vice President gave to Sokoto South Senator, Aminu Tambuwal and former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami during separate meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, Atiku wrote: \u201cWe will be unrelenting in defending the rights of every Nigerian being harassed by anti-democratic forces of the Tinubu-led APC administration, was my assurance to Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coalition that we are pushing is aimed at rescuing our democracy from the stranglehold of this emerging dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall be deliberate in joining hands in saving our democracy.\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 Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed that the African Democratic Congress, ADC, coalition will not relent in defending Nigerians against President Bola Tinubu\u2019s anti-democratic forces. Atiku said the coalition will rescue Nigeria\u2019s democracy from emerging dictatorship. These were assurances the former Vice President gave to Sokoto South Senator, Aminu Tambuwal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[316,1104,254,614],"class_list":["post-178024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-atiku","tag-malami","tag-nigeria","tag-tambuwal"],"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>Atiku Promises to Defend Nigerians Against Tinubu&#039;s Rule - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed that the African Democratic Congress, ADC, coalition will not relen ...\" \/>\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\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku Promises to Defend Nigerians Against Tinubu&#039;s Rule\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed that the African Democratic Congress, ADC, coalition will not relen ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-09T06:46:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-09T08:22:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757393736.706635.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"652\" \/>\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\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atiku Promises to Defend Nigerians Against Tinubu&#8217;s Rule\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-09T06:46:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-09T08:22:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule\"},\"wordCount\":160,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757393736.706635.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atiku\",\"Malami\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tambuwal\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-promises-to-defend-nigerians-against-tinubus-rule\",\"name\":\"Atiku Promises to Defend Nigerians Against Tinubu's Rule - 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