{"id":232228,"date":"2026-05-03T15:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-kano-apc-endorses-tinubu-gov-yusuf-rejects-automatic-ticket-for-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:40:59","slug":"nigeria-2027-kano-apc-endorses-tinubu-gov-yusuf-rejects-automatic-ticket-for-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-kano-apc-endorses-tinubu-gov-yusuf-rejects-automatic-ticket-for-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 2027 &#8211; Kano APC Endorses Tinubu, Gov Yusuf, Rejects Automatic Ticket for Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State have purchased expression of interest and nomination forms for Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The immediate past National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, presented the form to the governor during a stakeholders&#8217; meeting, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The presentation of the form serves as a symbolic adaptation of Governor Yusuf as the party&#8217;s governorship candidate in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010284.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>Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State have purchased expression of interest and nomination forms for Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf. The immediate past National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, presented the form to the governor during a stakeholders&#8217; meeting, on Thursday. The presentation of the form serves as a symbolic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232229,"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":[258,256,11297,16668,10794,7547,694,14377,257,4687,393,8440,254,8346,8308,19283],"class_list":["post-232228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-automatic","tag-endorses","tag-gov","tag-kano","tag-lawmakers","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ticket","tag-tinubu","tag-yusuf"],"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\/232228","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=232228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}