{"id":203946,"date":"2025-08-04T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-presidency-northerners-should-wait-until-2031-niger-delta-stakeholder\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:38:53","slug":"nigeria-presidency-northerners-should-wait-until-2031-niger-delta-stakeholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-presidency-northerners-should-wait-until-2031-niger-delta-stakeholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Presidency &#8211; Northerners Should Wait Until 2031 &#8211; Niger Delta Stakeholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">A prominent Niger Delta stakeholder, Dr. Ken Robinson, has called on northern politicians and interest groups eyeing the presidency in 2027 to shelve their ambitions and support the continuation of power in the South until 2031.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Dr. Robinson, the immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and Convener of Concerned Citizens of Rivers, made the appeal in a statement issued on Sunday. He described the reported push for a northern presidency in 2027 as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508040132.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>A prominent Niger Delta stakeholder, Dr. Ken Robinson, has called on northern politicians and interest groups eyeing the presidency in 2027 to shelve their ambitions and support the continuation of power in the South until 2031. Dr. Robinson, the immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and Convener of Concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203947,"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":[258,256,7929,257,404,4687,393,41442,8404,254,14251,9369],"class_list":["post-203946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-delta","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-northerners","tag-presidency","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stakeholder","tag-wait"],"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\/203946","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=203946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}