{"id":209591,"date":"2026-02-08T06:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209591"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:21:38","slug":"west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209591","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Nigeria&#8217;s Democracy Facing Existential Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanguard] Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has warned that Nigeria&#8217;s democracy was facing an existential threat, accusing President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s administration of deliberately weakening opposition parties and shrinking democratic space in a manner that could lead to a de facto one-party state&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601070393.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanguard] Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has warned that Nigeria&#8217;s democracy was facing an existential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat.png",664,664,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat-300x300.png",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat.png",640,640,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat.png",640,640,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat.png",664,664,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat.png",664,664,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat.png",664,664,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat-664x575.png",664,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209591-west-africa-nigerias-democracy-facing-existential-threat-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}