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The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ajibola Basiru has described the <\/span>national summit held by the opposition parties in Ibadan as a ruse.<\/span><\/p>\n Basiru, a former lawmaker who represented Osub Central Senatorial District described the summit where key opposition leaders converged on Saturday as a gathering of individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n In an interview conducted on Saturday, the former lawmaker said that, contrary to claims that opposition parties had gathered at the summit, only a few individuals were present at the event venue.<\/span><\/p>\n He also stated that for any political activity to take place, there must be authorisation from the parties\u2019 National Working Committee (NWC).<\/span><\/p>\n He said, \u201cThe so-called Ibadan summit is a ruse. It was an assemblage of individuals, not ten political parties. <\/span><\/p>\n For parties to meet, there must be prior authorisation from their NWC or NEC. Without that, it is simply a gathering of individuals,\u201d Basiru said.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking further on the tolerance exhibited by the President Bola Tinubu-led administration, the APC chieftain said the successful summit contradicts the claim that the president was driving the country into a one-party system.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf they now claim that ten political parties met to gang up against one party, it contradicts their earlier narrative. <\/span><\/p>\n It shows that the political space remains open, but they lack the strength to compete individually,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ajibola Basiru has described the national summit held by the opposition parties in Ibadan as a ruse. Basiru, a former lawmaker who represented Osub Central Senatorial District described the summit where key opposition leaders converged on Saturday as a gathering of individuals. In an interview conducted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":242570,"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":[272,3436,3335,3431,2821,3437,1281,1013,1282],"class_list":["post-242569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-african-democratic-congress-adc","tag-ajibola-basiru","tag-all-progressives-congress-apc","tag-ibadan-summit","tag-new-nigeria-peoples-party-nnpp","tag-opposition-parties","tag-oyo-state","tag-peoples-democratic-party-pdp","tag-seyi-makinde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_7559.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242569","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=242569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}