{"id":199335,"date":"2026-04-23T19:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:20:12","slug":"2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries","title":{"rendered":"2027: Tinubu meets APC govs ahead of primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with All Progressives Congress, APC, governors at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is taking place at the Council Chamber instead of the Conference Room, which was the initial venue.<\/p>\n<p>Governors Babagana Zulum of Borno State, Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, Hyacinth Alia of Benue State, Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State, Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State, Peter Mbah of Enugu State, and AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, among others, are currently on ground.<\/p>\n<p>It was, however, gathered that some states were represented by their deputy governors.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is coming barely three weeks before the party conducts its primary elections ahead of the 2027 polls.<\/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. President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with All Progressives Congress, APC, governors at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting is taking place at the Council Chamber instead of the Conference Room, which was the initial venue. Governors Babagana Zulum of Borno State, Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, Hyacinth Alia of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":199334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-199335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>2027: Tinubu meets APC govs ahead of primaries - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with All Progressives Congress, APC, governors at the Aso Rock Presidential V ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: Tinubu meets APC govs ahead of primaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with All Progressives Congress, APC, governors at the Aso Rock Presidential V ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-23T18:07:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-23T19:20:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/sm_1776971932.083961.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\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\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: Tinubu meets APC govs ahead of primaries\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-23T18:07:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-23T19:20:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries\"},\"wordCount\":131,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/sm_1776971932.083961.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-tinubu-meets-apc-govs-ahead-of-primaries\",\"name\":\"2027: Tinubu meets APC govs ahead of primaries - 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