{"id":205692,"date":"2025-08-28T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-apc-says-presidential-ticket-open-despite-tinubus-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:33:08","slug":"nigeria-2027-apc-says-presidential-ticket-open-despite-tinubus-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-apc-says-presidential-ticket-open-despite-tinubus-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 2027 &#8211; APC Says Presidential Ticket Open Despite Tinubu&#8217;s Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;The aspiration of the people would be the wish of the party. Yes, the National Working Committee (NWC), state organs, and many zones have endorsed President Tinubu. But that does not mean the door is closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apc.com.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Progressives Congress<\/a><\/strong> (APC) has said its 2027 presidential ticket will be open to all members, despite increasing endorsements for President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s re-election bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The party&#8217;s National Organising Secretary, Sulaiman Argungu, made this known on Wednesday at a press briefing in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508280132.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>&#8220;The aspiration of the people would be the wish of the party. Yes, the National Working Committee (NWC), state organs, and many zones have endorsed President Tinubu. But that does not mean the door is closed.&#8221; The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said its 2027 presidential ticket will be open to all members, despite increasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205693,"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":[258,256,11297,9563,257,4687,393,5983,6438,254,8346,34574],"class_list":["post-205692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-endorsement","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-open","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ticket","tag-tinubus"],"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\/205692","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=205692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}