{"id":20585,"date":"2024-11-05T20:37:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20585"},"modified":"2024-11-05T20:42:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T20:42:45","slug":"atiku-is-africas-most-infamous-presidential-election-loser-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20585","title":{"rendered":"Atiku is Africa\u2019s \u2018Most Infamous Presidential Election Loser\u2019 \u2013 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/apc.com.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Progressives Congress<\/a> (APC) launched a renewed critique of former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atiku_Abubakar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atiku Abubakar<\/a> on Tuesday, calling him \u201cAfrica\u2019s most infamous presidential election loser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">This statement, issued by APC National Publicity Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynigeria.com\/person\/Felix-Morka-2842\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Morka<\/a>, follows Atiku\u2019s recent claim that he did not lose the 2023 presidential election, alleging instead that his mandate was \u201ccriminally stolen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Reacting to Atiku\u2019s statement, shared on his official <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> handle, Morka asserted that the former Vice President\u2019s record of repeated electoral defeats had eroded his credibility. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cMake no mistake,\u201d Morka said, \u201cAtiku is Africa\u2019s most infamous presidential election loser. Since serving as vice president, he has lost to every elected Nigerian president, facing rejection six times over the past 17 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Morka criticized Atiku\u2019s ongoing refusal to accept his loss in the 2023 election as \u201cbeyond comical,\u201d suggesting that Atiku might believe he was similarly \u201ccheated\u201d in his five previous losses. This persistent denial, Morka added, reflects \u201cextreme and disturbing political desperation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Highlighting the trust issues raised during Atiku\u2019s tenure, Morka recalled former President Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s remark that \u201cif I support Atiku for anything, God will not forgive me,\u201d framing it as evidence of public concern over Atiku\u2019s leadership credentials. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Morka concluded by stating that Nigerian voters would not \u201cact against their own best interests\u201d by electing a candidate with such a controversial record.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) launched a renewed critique of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday, calling him \u201cAfrica\u2019s most infamous presidential election loser.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[129,111,125,9374,9375],"class_list":["post-20585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-africa","tag-apc","tag-atiku","tag-most-infamous","tag-presidential-election-loser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20591,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20585\/revisions\/20591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}