{"id":325650,"date":"2011-03-21T02:03:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T02:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T02:03:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T02:03:35","slug":"tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu rules out alliance with CPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"65.872392638\">\n<p><strong>By AbdulSalam Muhammad<\/strong><br \/>Prospect of a possible alliance between the Action Congress of\u00a0 Nigeria, ACN and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, was dashed yesterday in Kano as the leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu described CPC as parading \u201cexpired leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu told ACN supporters in Kano during the party\u2019s Presidential rally that: \u201cWhat Nigerians need now is a transformation in leadership\u201d as obtained in the advanced economy.<\/p>\n<p>The two-term Governor of Lagos State explained that the leadership of ACN was offering Nigeria the brilliance of Nuhu Ribadu who, he said, is in the class of Nicolas Sarkozi of France, David Cameron of Britain, Medvedev of Russia and Barack Obama of the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat has CPC got to offer? We certainly don\u2019t need expired leadership as we are offering the best in terms of brilliance, courage and patriotism in the class of Sarkozi of France, David Cameron of Britain and Barack Obama of the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu\u2019s position came on the heels of Ribadu\u2019s declaration penultimate week in Kaduna when he hinted during a political rally of a joint ticket between the two opposition parties to confront the dominance of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>The national leader of ACN criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for shying away from the national debate held last Friday, stressing that\u201dthat singular act exposed Jonathan as a coward who has nothing to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript=vanguardngr\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\">blog comments powered by <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/03\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/\" title=\"Tinubu rules out alliance with CPC\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tinubu rules out alliance with CPC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By AbdulSalam Muhammad Prospect of a possible alliance between the Action Congress of\u00a0 Nigeria, ACN and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, was dashed yesterday in Kano as the leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu described CPC as parading \u201cexpired leadership.\u201d Tinubu told ACN supporters in Kano during the party\u2019s Presidential rally that: \u201cWhat Nigerians need now is a transformation in leadership\u201d as obtained in the advanced economy. The two-term Governor of Lagos State explained that the leadership of ACN was offering Nigeria the brilliance of Nuhu Ribadu who, he said, is in the class of Nicolas Sarkozi of France, David Cameron of Britain, Medvedev of Russia and Barack Obama of the United States of America. \u201cWhat has CPC got to offer? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu rules out alliance with CPC - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tinubu rules out alliance with CPC - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By AbdulSalam Muhammad Prospect of a possible alliance between the Action Congress of\u00a0 Nigeria, ACN and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, was dashed yesterday in Kano as the leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu described CPC as parading \u201cexpired leadership.\u201d Tinubu told ACN supporters in Kano during the party\u2019s Presidential rally that: \u201cWhat Nigerians need now is a transformation in leadership\u201d as obtained in the advanced economy. The two-term Governor of Lagos State explained that the leadership of ACN was offering Nigeria the brilliance of Nuhu Ribadu who, he said, is in the class of Nicolas Sarkozi of France, David Cameron of Britain, Medvedev of Russia and Barack Obama of the United States of America. \u201cWhat has CPC got to offer?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu rules out alliance with CPC\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-03-21T02:03:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/\"},\"wordCount\":281,\"commentCount\":0,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/\",\"name\":\"Tinubu rules out alliance with CPC - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-03-21T02:03:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tinubu rules out alliance with CPC - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tinubu-rules-out-alliance-with-cpc\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Tinubu rules out alliance with CPC - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"By AbdulSalam Muhammad Prospect of a possible alliance between the Action Congress of\u00a0 Nigeria, ACN and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, was dashed yesterday in Kano as the leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu described CPC as parading \u201cexpired leadership.\u201d Tinubu told ACN supporters in Kano during the party\u2019s Presidential rally that: \u201cWhat Nigerians need now is a transformation in leadership\u201d as obtained in the advanced economy. 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