{"id":194092,"date":"2026-02-09T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:34:07","slug":"akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio and Mark: Momodu Warns Politicians Against Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has urged politicians not to allow anyone\u2019s personal ambition to lead them to hell fire.<\/p>\n<p>Momodu was reacting to remarks by the Interim National Chairman of African Democratic Congress, ADC, David Mark, who told Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to stop speaking for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the electronic transmission of election results.<\/p>\n<p>Mark charged Akpabio and the Senate to pass the law and allow INEC to decide on the issue of electronic transmission of results.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja, the former Senate President said Nigerians want electronic transmission of results.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Momodu posted on X: \u201cThank you sir, our ADC Chairman, Brigadier General David Mark (rtd.), for your brilliant intervention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy personal advice to our politicians is: Don\u2019t allow anyone\u2019s personal ambition lead you to hell fire. Promote transparent democratic tenets and ideals.\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. A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has urged politicians not to allow anyone\u2019s personal ambition to lead them to hell fire. Momodu was reacting to remarks by the Interim National Chairman of African Democratic Congress, ADC, David Mark, who told Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to stop speaking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":194090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-194092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>Akpabio and Mark: Momodu Warns Politicians Against Ambition - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has urged politicians not to allow anyone\u2019s personal a ...\" \/>\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\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Akpabio and Mark: Momodu Warns Politicians Against Ambition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has urged politicians not to allow anyone\u2019s personal a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-09T09:26:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-09T10:34:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770633146.285885.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=\"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\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Akpabio and Mark: Momodu Warns Politicians Against Ambition\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-09T09:26:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-09T10:34:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770633146.285885.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-and-mark-momodu-warns-politicians-against-ambition\",\"name\":\"Akpabio and Mark: Momodu Warns Politicians Against Ambition - 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