{"id":312602,"date":"2021-02-06T22:07:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T21:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=312602"},"modified":"2021-02-06T22:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T21:07:39","slug":"bola-tinubu-endorses-bisi-akandes-criticism-of-apc-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=312602","title":{"rendered":"Bola Tinubu endorses Bisi Akande\u2019s criticism of APC leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, says he can not oppose the criticism of the party by ex-Osun Governor, Bisi Akande.<br \/>\nThe former interim APC national chairman had described the ongoing registration and revalidation exercise as wasteful.<br \/>\nAkande also condemned the constitution of a party Caretaker and Convention Planning Committee.<br \/>\nOn Saturday, Tinubu said he could not fault his ally\u2019s position.<br \/>\nThe former Lagos Governor spoke to reporters at his Ikoyi residence after revalidating his membership of the APC.<br \/>\n\u201cI will not fault Baba Akande\u2019s position, I will not but endorse it\u201d, the politician said.<br \/>\nTinubu said he never heard a situation whereby the party\u2019s register submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), at the time of APC registration, was invalidated.<br \/>\nHe, however, noted that the current exercise was a matter of addition and subtraction, free entry and free exit.<br \/>\n\u201cYou have joined a particular party; you have decided to leave that party. You have equal opportunity for new members to join and update the existing register of the party\u201d, Tinubu added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, says he can not oppose the criticism of the party by ex-Osun Governor, Bisi Akande. The former interim APC national chairman had described the ongoing registration and revalidation exercise as wasteful. Akande also condemned the constitution of a party Caretaker and Convention Planning Committee. On Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,6563,41,4151],"class_list":["post-312602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-bisi-akande","tag-buhari","tag-tinubu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/312603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}