{"id":19998,"date":"2020-01-12T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=19998"},"modified":"2020-01-12T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T14:18:44","slug":"maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance","title":{"rendered":"Maku speaks on Atiku, Tinubu, Saraki, Wike \u2018alliance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labaran Maku, the National Secretary, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has said he didn\u2019t meet former vice president Atiku Abubakar, All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, among others, to float a new political platform ahead of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate past president of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers) Aminu Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed (Bauchi) also allegedly attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Maku, a former minister of information, spoke on Sunday while fielding questions from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Wakama, Nasarawa.<\/p>\n<p>Maku, a 2019 APGA governorship candidate in the state, said: \u201cI haven\u2019t met Asiwaju Tinubu for years and I am in APGA by choice having considered all the other options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat I held meeting with Tinubu, others in my country home Wakama, such report is a fake news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Maku, who stated that some people were jittery ahead of the next elections, urged APGA supporters to remain firm and continue supporting the party.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister advised well meaning Nigerians to be law abiding and respect constituted authorities for development to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu, last week, dismissed speculations that President Muhammadu Buhari had a third term agenda.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI was in the trenches and in the opposition with Muhammadu Buhari, till the Third Term agenda of a former leader of this country failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he will never. He has the courage and the character to refuse such a temptation even if offered to him. I believe in him and I believe Nigerians should also believe in him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t need to say it to me, I\u2019ll argue it in the corner and everywhere they bring such a thing up. However, it\u2019s very good to hear it from him. I say congratulations to a man of character and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge of turning the ship of this nation around is a continuum and a continuous effort and that is what we should get ourselves concerned with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labaran Maku, the National Secretary, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has said he didn\u2019t meet former vice president Atiku Abubakar, All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, among others, to float a new political platform ahead of 2023. Immediate past president of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers) Aminu Tambuwal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[83,1152],"class_list":["post-19998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-bukola-saraki","tag-governor-wike"],"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>Maku speaks on Atiku, Tinubu, Saraki, Wike \u2018alliance\u2019 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Labaran Maku, the National Secretary, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has said he didn\u2019t meet former vice president Atiku Abubakar, All Progressives 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\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maku speaks on Atiku, Tinubu, Saraki, Wike \u2018alliance\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Labaran Maku, the National Secretary, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has said he didn\u2019t meet former vice president Atiku Abubakar, All Progressives Congress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-12T14:18:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-12T14:18:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Nyesom-Wike-1.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=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Maku speaks on Atiku, Tinubu, Saraki, Wike \u2018alliance\u2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-12T14:18:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-12T14:18:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance\"},\"wordCount\":331,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Nyesom-Wike-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bukola Saraki\",\"governor Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/maku-speaks-on-atiku-tinubu-saraki-wike-alliance\",\"name\":\"Maku speaks on Atiku, Tinubu, Saraki, Wike \u2018alliance\u2019 - 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