{"id":238451,"date":"2025-12-21T19:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/amaechi-posters-surface-in-kaduna-spark-2027-presidential-speculation\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:08:48","slug":"amaechi-posters-surface-in-kaduna-spark-2027-presidential-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/amaechi-posters-surface-in-kaduna-spark-2027-presidential-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaechi posters surface in Kaduna, spark 2027 presidential speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"297\">Posters of Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, former minister of transportation, appeared across major streets in Kaduna over the weekend, fuelling speculation about early political activity ahead of the 2027 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"496\">The posters, which featured Amaechi\u2019s portrait, described him as \u201cthe only person to be trusted\u201d and \u201cthe only man for the job\u201d, with messages centred on unity, equality, stability and development.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"498\" data-end=\"703\">Amaechi, who holds the traditional title of Dan Amanan Kasar Hausa of Daura, has previously served as Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"797\">Residents said the posters were sighted at strategic locations across the Kaduna metropolis, including Ahmadu Bello Way, Ali Akilu Way, the environs of the Kaduna state government house and the Kawo Bridge corridor leading towards Zaria.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"953\" data-end=\"1110\">Motorists and pedestrians were seen slowing down to observe the displays, particularly around Kawo Bridge, where early-morning traffic was briefly disrupted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1328\" data-end=\"1461\">Although Amaechi has not made any formal declaration, the posters have intensified speculation about a renewed presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1589\" data-end=\"1706\">Amaechi contested the All Progressives Congress presidential primary in 2022, where he finished second behind President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posters of Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, former minister of transportation, appeared across major streets in Kaduna over the weekend, fuelling speculation about early political activity ahead of the 2027 presidential election. The posters, which featured Amaechi\u2019s portrait, described him as \u201cthe only person to be trusted\u201d and \u201cthe only man for the job\u201d, with messages centred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238452,"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-238451","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\/12\/G7ZM6X1WkAAKKOn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238451","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=238451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}