{"id":227403,"date":"2026-03-20T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-adcs-problem-is-adc-not-apc-by-azu-ishiekwene\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:34:12","slug":"nigeria-adcs-problem-is-adc-not-apc-by-azu-ishiekwene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-adcs-problem-is-adc-not-apc-by-azu-ishiekwene\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: ADC&#8217;s Problem Is ADC, Not APC, By Azu Ishiekwene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">I laugh whenever the ADC calls itself an opposition party.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\"><strong>The optics across Nigeria point broadly at a singular outcome in next year&#8217;s general elections &#8211; a victory lap for the ruling APC. Not because of a sterling record of performance, but because the opposition, especially the ADC, has paved the way by making itself not an alternative platform for change, but a place where a few desperate politicians lock horns for power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">This is the last thing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) wants to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603190502.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>I laugh whenever the ADC calls itself an opposition party. The optics across Nigeria point broadly at a singular outcome in next year&#8217;s general elections &#8211; a victory lap for the ruling APC. Not because of a sterling record of performance, but because the opposition, especially the ADC, has paved the way by making itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227404,"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":[22947,53955,258,256,11297,40059,53956,257,4687,393,9981,254],"class_list":["post-227403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adc","tag-adcs","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-azu","tag-ishiekwene","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-problem","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\/227403","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=227403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}