{"id":203008,"date":"2025-07-22T09:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-atiku-hasnt-officially-joined-adc-source\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:13:03","slug":"nigeria-why-atiku-hasnt-officially-joined-adc-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-atiku-hasnt-officially-joined-adc-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why Atiku Hasn&#8217;t Officially Joined ADC &#8211; Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has yet to formally complete his move to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) after resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last week, a close source has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The delay appears to be deliberate, with Atiku reportedly planning to carry out the registration in person rather than through a representative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Speaking in confidence to Vanguard in Abuja on Monday night, the source explained that Atiku&#8217;s recent travels were the main reason for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507220074.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has yet to formally complete his move to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) after resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last week, a close source has revealed. The delay appears to be deliberate, with Atiku reportedly planning to carry out the registration in person rather than through a representative. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203009,"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":[22947,258,256,9899,28225,41789,257,4687,393,5982,12486,254],"class_list":["post-203008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atiku","tag-hasnt","tag-joined","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-officially","tag-source","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/203008","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=203008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}