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Atiku recently participated in the unveiling of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the political platform of a broad opposition coalition.<\/p>\n
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has strongly denied reports suggesting he was asked to step down for a southern presidential candidate ahead of the 2027 elections, describing the claim as “a malicious fabrication” and “propaganda” allegedly orchestrated by the ruling All Progressives Congress<\/a><\/strong> (APC).<\/p>\n In a statement issued Tuesday by his media office…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Atiku recently participated in the unveiling of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the political platform of a broad opposition coalition. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has strongly denied reports suggesting he was asked to step down for a southern presidential candidate ahead of the 2027 elections, describing the claim as “a malicious fabrication” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9899,7997,257,4687,393,8404,254,7153,5938,14571],"class_list":["post-202002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atiku","tag-candidate","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-presidency","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-speaks","tag-stepping"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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