{"id":430923,"date":"2011-05-26T23:08:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T23:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/26\/tinubu-acn-commended-over-stand-on-gnu\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T23:08:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T23:08:33","slug":"tinubu-acn-commended-over-stand-on-gnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/tinubu-acn-commended-over-stand-on-gnu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu, ACN commended over stand on GNU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"60\">\n<p><strong>By Clifford Ndujihe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FOR refusing to be part of President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s proposed Government of National Unity, GNU, a group, Forum for Purposeful Governance and Democratic Ethos, FPGDE, has commended the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, recently distanced itself from Jonathan\u2019s unity government,\u00a0 because \u201cit stifles the opposition\u201d saying it was contented with offering virile opposition to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the ACN move as \u2018progressive,\u201d FPGDE in a statement by its National Co-ordinator, Femi Akomolede, said \u201cfor a truly balanced democracy, such as we last had between 1979 and 1983, the opposition must maintain a cohesive voice to serve as the purveyor of alternative considerations and solutions on important matters of national interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/05\/tinubu-acn-commended-over-stand-on-gnu\/\" title=\"Tinubu, ACN commended over stand on GNU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tinubu, ACN commended over stand on GNU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Clifford Ndujihe FOR refusing to be part of President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s proposed Government of National Unity, GNU, a group, Forum for Purposeful Governance and Democratic Ethos, FPGDE, has commended the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, recently distanced itself from Jonathan\u2019s unity government,\u00a0 because \u201cit stifles the opposition\u201d saying it was contented with offering virile opposition to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Describing the ACN move as \u2018progressive,\u201d FPGDE in a statement by its National Co-ordinator, Femi Akomolede, said \u201cfor a truly balanced democracy, such as we last had between 1979 and 1983, the opposition must maintain a cohesive voice to serve as the purveyor of alternative considerations and solutions on important matters of national interest.\u201d Comments are moderated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-430923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu, ACN commended over stand on GNU - 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\/05\/26\/tinubu-acn-commended-over-stand-on-gnu\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tinubu, ACN commended over stand on GNU - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Clifford Ndujihe FOR refusing to be part of President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s proposed Government of National Unity, GNU, a group, Forum for Purposeful Governance and Democratic Ethos, FPGDE, has commended the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. 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