{"id":212843,"date":"2025-11-07T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-godfatherism-in-2027-shinkafi-warns-apc-in-zamfara\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:23:05","slug":"nigeria-no-godfatherism-in-2027-shinkafi-warns-apc-in-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-godfatherism-in-2027-shinkafi-warns-apc-in-zamfara\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: &#8216;No Godfatherism in 2027,&#8217; Shinkafi Warns APC in Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Abuja \u2014 A prominent chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governorship candidate in Zamfara State, Alhaji (Dr.) Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi has warned that only credible and transparent primaries will determine who emerges as the party&#8217;s flagbearer for the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">He insisted that every aspirant, regardless of their political standing, must face the people in a fair popularity test, declaring that the era of godfatherism in the APC is over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Shinkafi, who also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511070291.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>Abuja \u2014 A prominent chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governorship candidate in Zamfara State, Alhaji (Dr.) Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi has warned that only credible and transparent primaries will determine who emerges as the party&#8217;s flagbearer for the 2027 general elections. He insisted that every aspirant, regardless of their political standing, must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212844,"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":[258,256,11297,52813,257,4687,393,52814,254,6853,23070],"class_list":["post-212843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-godfatherism","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-shinkafi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns","tag-zamfara"],"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\/212843","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=212843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}