{"id":51988,"date":"2018-10-13T21:09:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T20:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51988"},"modified":"2018-10-13T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T20:10:08","slug":"2019-presidency-why-atiku-is-a-formidable-candidate-apc-chieftain-santuraki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51988","title":{"rendered":"2019 Presidency: Why Atiku is a formidable candidate &#8211; APC chieftain, Santuraki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Atiku-blasts-Osinbajo.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Niger State, Dr mohammed Santuraki, on Saturday declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar was a \u201cformidable opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Suleja, the APC chieftain insisted that whether the ruling party likes it or not Abubakar was a strong contender in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, he called on the APC to put its house in order so as to sing victory songs in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWhether we would like to admit or not, the presidential candidate that the main opposition party, the PDP, settled for is a formidable opponent, even if not a credible one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin a week of emerging as the presidential flag bearer, he appointed his campaign team and named his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d This to me indicates a much needed sense of urgency. We, in APC must respond in like manner. The clock is ticking. We must push the button.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Niger State, Dr mohammed Santuraki, on Saturday declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar was a \u201cformidable opponent.\u201d Speaking with News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Suleja, the APC chieftain insisted that whether the ruling party likes it or not Abubakar was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41135,"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":[3,4],"tags":[1048],"class_list":["post-51988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988","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=51988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}