{"id":194550,"date":"2026-02-12T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:31:12","slug":"el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai Predicts ADC Presidential Candidate for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Bashir El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has suggested that the African Democratic Congress, ADC, will not field former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate in the 2027 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir made the remark on Thursday in a post on X while reacting to a comment by a user @Osi_Sauve, who had written: \u201cIf your presidential candidate is Atiku then you will woefully lose. Just stating the obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding, Bashir El-Rufai said Atiku should rather assume the role of a statesman and political godfather in what he described as a critical period in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t be Atiku. I believe Atiku should be the statesman and the Godfather of this historic changing precipice of our nation,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he would support a popular candidate from the South-East paired with a strong and widely accepted Northern figure, arguing that such a strategy would be difficult for opponents to defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are easily defeated by my calculus with that strategy,\u201d Bashir El-Rufai stated.<\/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. Bashir El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has suggested that the African Democratic Congress, ADC, will not field former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate in the 2027 general election. Bashir made the remark on Thursday in a post on X while reacting to a comment by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":194549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-194550","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>El-Rufai Predicts ADC Presidential Candidate for 2027 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bashir El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has suggested that the African Democratic Congress ...\" \/>\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\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"El-Rufai Predicts ADC Presidential Candidate for 2027\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bashir El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has suggested that the African Democratic Congress ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-12T11:19:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-12T12:31:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770899392.864737.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\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"El-Rufai Predicts ADC Presidential Candidate for 2027\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-12T11:19:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-12T12:31:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770899392.864737.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/el-rufai-predicts-adc-presidential-candidate-for-2027\",\"name\":\"El-Rufai Predicts ADC Presidential Candidate for 2027 - 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