{"id":198082,"date":"2026-03-30T18:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:46:27","slug":"atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Reacts to Kwankwaso&#8217;s Defection to ADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the defection of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.<\/p>\n<p>Kwankwaso officially picked the membership card of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Several stakeholders of the party including Peter Obi and Rotimi Amaechi, former governors of Anambra and Rivers states, respectively, stormed Kwankwaso\u2019s residence in Kano to witness the defection.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Atiku in a post on his official Facebook page expressed excitement over Kwankwaso\u2019s alignment with other opposition figures ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to Atiku, the alliance of opposition leaders has made power to tremble.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cWhen men of conviction come together, power trembles. Welcome aboard, HE Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.\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 reacted to the defection of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. Kwankwaso officially picked the membership card of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Monday. Several stakeholders of the party including Peter Obi and Rotimi Amaechi, former governors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":198080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-198082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","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>Atiku Reacts to Kwankwaso&#039;s Defection to ADC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the defection of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigerian ...\" \/>\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\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku Reacts to Kwankwaso&#039;s Defection to ADC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the defection of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigerian ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-30T17:29:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-30T18:46:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/sm_1774896354.224646.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=\"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\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atiku Reacts to Kwankwaso&#8217;s Defection to ADC\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-30T17:29:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-30T18:46:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc\"},\"wordCount\":140,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/sm_1774896354.224646.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/atiku-reacts-to-kwankwasos-defection-to-adc\",\"name\":\"Atiku Reacts to Kwankwaso's Defection to ADC - 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