{"id":228306,"date":"2026-03-24T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-2027-presidential-election-tinubu-and-hasim-in-a-two-horse-race\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:43:07","slug":"nigeria-the-2027-presidential-election-tinubu-and-hasim-in-a-two-horse-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-2027-presidential-election-tinubu-and-hasim-in-a-two-horse-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: The 2027 Presidential Election &#8211; Tinubu and Hasim in a Two-Horse Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Abuja \u2014 <em>The two gladiators Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and Dr Gbenga Hashim of the PDP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"76\">In the build-up to the 2027 general election, early polls suggest a two horse race between Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces a master strategist and the father of Nigeria modern politics and Dr. Gbenga Hashim a highly successful businessman, a sophisticated political observer and an expert of the sahel, one of Nigerian rising&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603230717.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 The two gladiators Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and Dr Gbenga Hashim of the PDP. In the build-up to the 2027 general election, early polls suggest a two horse race between Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces a master strategist and the father of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681018:c71412879852c38f2e15a43d2242d937:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,3119,53985,257,4687,393,6438,5146,254,8308,25226],"class_list":["post-228306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-election","tag-hasim","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-presidential","tag-race","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-twohorse"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681018:c71412879852c38f2e15a43d2242d937:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228306","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=228306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}