{"id":207987,"date":"2025-09-23T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-el-rufais-tenure-elongation-claim-why-nigeria-cannot-become-another-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:08:18","slug":"cameroon-el-rufais-tenure-elongation-claim-why-nigeria-cannot-become-another-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-el-rufais-tenure-elongation-claim-why-nigeria-cannot-become-another-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: El-Rufai&#8217;s Tenure Elongation Claim &#8211; Why Nigeria Cannot Become Another Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has sparked controversy by alleging that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu harbours ambitions to extend his tenure beyond constitutional limits, likening him to Cameroon&#8217;s long-ruling President Paul Biya. Such claims, however, collapse under the weight of Nigeria&#8217;s democratic structures, constitutional safeguards, international commitments, and Tinubu&#8217;s reformist track record. Beyond this, the remarks reveal more about El-Rufai&#8217;s political bitterness than&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509230539.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has sparked controversy by alleging that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu harbours ambitions to extend his tenure beyond constitutional limits, likening him to Cameroon&#8217;s long-ruling President Paul Biya. Such claims, however, collapse under the weight of Nigeria&#8217;s democratic structures, constitutional safeguards, international commitments, and Tinubu&#8217;s reformist track record. Beyond this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207988,"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":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,8667,52414,16446,257,4687,254,10772],"class_list":["post-207987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-claim","tag-elongation","tag-elrufais","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tenure"],"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\/207987","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=207987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}