{"id":179838,"date":"2025-09-23T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:58:08","slug":"2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary","title":{"rendered":"2027: Why APGA endorsed Tinubu \u2013 Publicity Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has said that its endorsement of President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general elections is centered on ideological lines.<\/p>\n<p>The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mazi Opara Ejimofor, stated this on Monday, in an interview on Arise Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnambra State Governor, Charles Soludo\u2019s statement was premised on two factors. Firstly, he has a long-standing relationship with President Tinubu, having been friends for over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecondly, APGA has an unwritten convention to support the party at the center, a tradition that predates the Charles Soludo administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you say for political expediency maybe that was what that convention had in mind when they elected or maybe shaped the party in such a way that it had to align with the party at the centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo make it a little robust, there is a debate ongoing about the politics of Nigeria and why it should be enshrined in some kind of political ideology so as to end this era of person who come up to see political parties as mere special proposed vehicles for actualization of their political selfish ambition,\u201d he said.<\/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. The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has said that its endorsement of President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general elections is centered on ideological lines. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mazi Opara Ejimofor, stated this on Monday, in an interview on Arise Television. \u201cAnambra State Governor, Charles Soludo\u2019s statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[13554,131,254,945],"class_list":["post-179838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-13554","tag-apga","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>2027: Why APGA endorsed Tinubu \u2013 Publicity Secretary - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has said that its endorsement of President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 gene ...\" \/>\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-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: Why APGA endorsed Tinubu \u2013 Publicity Secretary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has said that its endorsement of President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 gene ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-23T11:00:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-23T11:58:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758616286.74693.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=\"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\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: Why APGA endorsed Tinubu \u2013 Publicity Secretary\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-23T11:00:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-23T11:58:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758616286.74693.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2027\",\"APGA\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-apga-endorsed-tinubu-publicity-secretary\",\"name\":\"2027: Why APGA endorsed Tinubu \u2013 Publicity Secretary - 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