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Almost All APC Candidates For 2027 Elections May Be Produced Through Imposition, Party Chieftain, Lukman Warns

…Accuses Ganduje Of Freezing Structures Of The Party
A former National Vice Chairman North-west of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman has said that the ruling party has reached the point where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in 2007 in manipulating political contests through imposition, vote buying and rigging.
Lukman in a statement issued Tuesday, noted that it might grow to the point where almost all APC candidates for 2027 elections might be produced through imposition.
Lukman, however, appealed to Tinubu and APC leaders to resist the temptation of overindulging themselves with the false belief that they could continue to succeed in imposing their choices on Nigerians.
He added that many APC leaders were confident that under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu, the potential transformation of the party into a truly progressive party would be achieved.
Lukman said about six months after the emergence of Tinubu, such confidence could hardly be sustained, adding that if anything, what is very clear is that Tinubu’s commitment to the development of the APC as a political party might only be guaranteed to the extent that the party will give him what he wants.
He noted: “APC with all the vision of emerging as a progressive political party is being destroyed. Suddenly, APC leaders, sadly, including President Asiwaju Tinubu have assumed the overdrive mode of operating with hardly any strong respect for internal democracy within the APC. Otherwise, what could explain the current happenings in APC whereby none of the party organs is functioning as provided in the APC constitution.”
The party chieftain stressed that as long as political parties in Nigeria are allowed to operate in a lawless manner, the problems of manipulating political contests will continue.
Lukman added: “It is almost a return to the old PDP model of party organisation under former President Olusegun Obasanjo with the requirement of 100 percent loyalty. Without any attempt to reopen old wounds, the requirement for 100 percent loyalty was responsible for the graveyard silence internally within the APC when Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was proposed by President Asiwaju Tinubu as National Chairman.
“After Dr. Ganduje’s successful emergence, there is also graveyard silence even when Dr. Ganduje continued with the practice of freezing structures of the party. No meetings of organs are taking place almost four months after the emergence of Dr. Ganduje as the APC National Chairman.
“Given such ugly reality, it should only be expected that the culture of manipulating political contests through imposition, vote buying, rigging, etc. would become entrenched in APC.
“Like the case in PDP in 2007, it may grow to the point where almost all APC candidates for 2027 elections may be produced through imposition. Unless we want to lie to ourselves, as things are, the culture of manipulating political contests through imposition, vote buying, rigging, etc. in APC has reached the point where PDP was in 2007.”
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Dangote Refinery slashes petrol price to N820 per litre

In an update, a spokesman for the refinery, Tony Chiejina, confirmed the ₦20 marginal reduction, which occurred about one week after the $20bn refinery dropped ex-depot petrol price from ₦880 to ₦840 on June 30, 2025.
Chiejina said the new ex-depot price of ₦820 took effect from Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
Filling stations like MRS Oil & Gas, Ardova Plc, Heyden, and others with special agreements with the Dangote Refinery are expected to reduce their pump price further below ₦880 to reflect the marginal reduction in the ex-depot price of the premium commodity.
On Sunday, June 15, 2025, the Lagos-based refinery announced the free distribution of petrol and diesel to marketers, dealers, and other large users across the country.
The 650,000 barrels-per-day capacity refinery said it has procured 4,000 brand-new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered tankers for the take-off of the initiative on August 15, 2025.
It also offered a credit facility to those purchasing a minimum of 500,000 litres — allowing them to obtain an additional 500,000 litres on credit for two weeks, under a bank guarantee.
Petrol marketers and truck owners have since criticised the expansion moves by Dangote Refinery, saying it would asphyxiate depot owners, truck operators, and retail outlets who have special deals for the direct delivery of petrol and diesel to large corporations and multinationals.
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2027: Okonkwo Backs Northerner, Says Tinubu Will Win If Coalition Presents Southerner

The actor-turned-lawyer said that to unseat Tinubu, the ADC coalition should present a northern political heavyweight in the toga of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai, ex-Sokoto governor Aminu Tambuwal, among others.
“My strategy this time around is that I am going to support a northerner in 2027,” Okonkwo said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday.
“It must be a northerner that the whole north is willing to support.
“If the whole north is willing to support an Atiku, why not?
“If the whole north is willing to support a Tambuwal, why not? The person must be qualified, and if he has experience in the presidency, it is an added advantage, and when he puts up something from the south, that will push him through,” he said.
Interestingly, Okonkwo was one of the spokespersons for Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, but he parted ways with the former Anambra governor and dumped the Labour Party in July 2024 over the party’s internal squabbles and Obi’s failure to address them.
Tinubu, who trounced his closest rivals, Atiku and Obi, in the 2023 poll and assumed office in May 2023, is seeking re-election in 2027 to complete the country’s eight-year unwritten rule on rotation of power between the two major regions of the country – the southern and northern regions. Before Tinubu, Muhammadu Buhari, a retired military general from the North-West zone of the country, was in power between May 2015 and May 2023.
On Tuesday, Okonkwo said Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has “become incurably bad and we want to terminate his incumbency”.
“Anybody telling you it’s injustice if the north comes in, if the south comes in, and whoever wins in a primary election will take it for four years. Where is the injustice? It has happened before.
“Anybody telling you to bring a fresh southerner to compete against Tinubu, a southerner, is trying to tell you to zone the ticket to Tinubu and Tinubu will win outright,” Okonkwo said.
He said since the APC is presenting Tinubu to be its flag bearer, the opposition coalition must present a northerner to challenge him.
“If you bring somebody from the Southeast, even if he wins, they will steal it from him.
“Let me tell you the strategy that will make the Southeast man to be president. Do you know the South-West has never contested an election against an incumbent? Strategy? Because they know that in Nigeria, if you don’t have the establishment supporting you, even if you win, they will steal it from you.
“Peter Obi won the election in 2023, and they stole it from us. If you do it again, they will steal it from him because there is no incumbent to back you, but if you bring somebody from the north, nobody will prevail on him to leave his victory because he is not from the same side as you,” he said.
Ahead of the 2027 polls, talks about an inter-party alliance reached a climax on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, when opposition arrowhead Atiku Abubakar, alongside Obi, ex-Senate president David Mark, ex-minister Rauf Aregbesola, ex-minister Rotimi Amaechi, ex-Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai, amongst others, adopted the ADC as the platform by the opposition coalition to oust incumbent Tinubu whose administration has been accused of mismanaging the economy, with all-time high inflation and unprecedented cost of living.
The coalition is banking on the numerical strength of the votes recorded by Atiku and Obi in the last poll. In 2023, Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party’s Obi came second and third respectively with combined votes of over 12 million, more than four million above the total votes recorded by Tinubu who was declared the winner by electoral umpire INEC.
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I’ll Be Re-Elected If I Run In 2027 Despite Wike’s Opposition – Kingibe

The Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Women Affairs was a guest on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm programme aired on Tuesday.
The Labour Party (LP) senator said, despite the opposition of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, the people of Abuja would re-elect her if she decides to run.
In July 2024, Wike had said 71-year-old Kingibe won’t return to the red chamber in 2027.
However, Kingibe, on Tuesday, said she would win with a landslide if she ever decides to run in the next poll.
The female lawmaker said, “I know that I will win in a landslide victory, bigger than the last one. The last one, bear in mind, that I went to the Senate with one of the highest, if not the highest votes of any legislator.
“And it was not just about (LP Peter) Obi. Yes, he brought some votes, but I also brought some votes to him that would not normally go to him.”
Kingibe alleged that the people of Abuja resent Wike, former Rivers State governor, who was appointed FCT minister by President Bola Tinubu in August 2023.
According to her, the minister has so far treated the people of the FCT with disdain and contempt.
“The local government election is going to tell whether Wike controls the FCT because nobody does.
“It’s only people who have lived here for a long will know that the people of the FCT have their independent minds.
“People who live here will know that the one thing that unites us in the FCT is the resentment of the minister,” she said.
Kingibe added that Wike has given Tinubu a bad image and should not have been appointed a minister of the FCT.
Kingibe and Wike have been caught in a long-drawn brawl since they assumed their respective offices in June and August 2023. While the former belongs to the opposition Labour Party (LP), the latter is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but works with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
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