{"id":195633,"date":"2026-02-21T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:47:00","slug":"apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo","title":{"rendered":"\u2018APC not party of saints\u2019 \u2013 Keyamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, is not a party of saints.<\/p>\n<p>Keyamo said only a fool would declare the APC or any political party as one of the saints.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, the minister, however, noted that the APC still remains the best hope for Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cThis is the unedited part of the interview I granted a blog in 2017 (nine years ago) emphasising that APC may not be a Party of saints (which, I repeat, is a matter of fact), BUT it is still far better than where we were coming from. Some characters edited the last part of my statement out of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd today, I repeat it again, I will be a fool to say APC is a Party of saints. And anyone who declares any party to which he\/she belongs as a Party of saints will also be a fool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, on the balance, the APC still holds the best hope for the country and we cannot return to the era of PDP where you had some of the characters who are running for President today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was only Mr. President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT that never hopped onto that battered train of PDP at that time.\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. Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, is not a party of saints. Keyamo said only a fool would declare the APC or any political party as one of the saints. Posting on X, the minister, however, noted that the APC still remains the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":195632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-195633","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>\u2018APC not party of saints\u2019 \u2013 Keyamo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, is not a part ...\" \/>\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\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018APC not party of saints\u2019 \u2013 Keyamo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, is not a part ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-21T08:41:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-21T09:47:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1771667182.352166.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\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\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u2018APC not party of saints\u2019 \u2013 Keyamo\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-21T08:41:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-21T09:47:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo\"},\"wordCount\":232,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1771667182.352166.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/apc-not-party-of-saints-keyamo\",\"name\":\"\u2018APC not party of saints\u2019 \u2013 Keyamo - 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