{"id":237224,"date":"2025-11-09T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/why-atiku-will-never-become-nigerias-president-oba-of-lagos-speaks-out\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:03:52","slug":"why-atiku-will-never-become-nigerias-president-oba-of-lagos-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/why-atiku-will-never-become-nigerias-president-oba-of-lagos-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Atiku Will Never Become Nigeria\u2019s President \u2014 Oba of Lagos Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has ruled out any chance of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar ever becoming Nigeria\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interaction with journalists at his Iga Iduganran Palace, the monarch said destiny has not aligned in Atiku\u2019s favour, despite his repeated attempts to occupy the nation\u2019s highest office since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Akiolu made the remarks as part of activities marking his 22nd year on the throne. <\/p>\n<p>He described President Bola Tinubu\u2019s rise to power as an act of divine will, insisting that his emergence was not by accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future belongs to God. But let me say it plainly: former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will never be President of Nigeria,\u201d the monarch said.<\/p>\n<p>He commended <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>for his leadership qualities, calling him \u201ccompassionate and visionary.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Akiolu added that <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>had shown respect and humility after his victory, recalling that \u201che presented his certificate to me first after winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The traditional ruler urged Nigerians to rally behind the president, saying unity and patience were needed to achieve the country\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLagosians and Nigerians should support him to fulfil God\u2019s purpose for the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has ruled out any chance of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar ever becoming Nigeria\u2019s president. Speaking during an interaction with journalists at his Iga Iduganran Palace, the monarch said destiny has not aligned in Atiku\u2019s favour, despite his repeated attempts to occupy the nation\u2019s highest office since 1992. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Oba-Rilwan-Akiolu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}