{"id":17,"date":"2026-08-27T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:37:22","slug":"2027-politics-atiku-tinubu-faceoff-widens-over-subsidy-16bn-power-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"2027 politics: Atiku-Tinubu faceoff widens over subsidy, $16bn power projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 27, 2026 2:14 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BAT.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.002597610198617;width:547px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BAT.webp 783w, https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BAT-300x150.webp 300w, https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BAT-767x383.webp 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has challenged the Federal Government to investigate and prosecute him if it has evidence linking him to the alleged $16bn power expenditure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 27, 2026 2:14 am Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has challenged the Federal Government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siwes.bikendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}