{"id":19150,"date":"2026-10-28T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=19150"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:33:50","slug":"adc-accuses-sokoto-govt-of-booking-all-hotels-to-frustrate-saturday-flag-off-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/adc-accuses-sokoto-govt-of-booking-all-hotels-to-frustrate-saturday-flag-off-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"ADC Accuses Sokoto Govt Of Booking All Hotels To Frustrate Saturday Flag-Off Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mohammed Abubakar<\/p>\n

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the Sokoto State Government of instructing hotels in Sokoto to deny accommodation to its delegates ahead of its presidential campaign flag-off scheduled for Saturday.
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\nThe party alleged that both government-owned and privately-owned hotels in the town had been booked, with delegates told that there were no rooms available from Tuesday through Sunday, in a move allegedly aimed at frustrating the event.<\/p>\n

The Presidential Campaign Spokesperson, Dahiru Maishanu, made the allegation in a statement issued on Wednesday in Sokoto, describing the action as unbecoming and irresponsible. <\/p>\n

Maishanu said it was condemnable for the state government to instruct hotels to deny paying citizens the right to stay in their hotels, and equally condemnable to evict customers who had already paid and were currently staying. 0db3<\/p>\n

He said the state government’s action smacked of executive rascality and unwarranted partisanship by the state government and its agents. 0db3<\/p>\n

According to him, hotels had been informing delegates that they were fully booked from Monday through Sunday to effectively prevent reservations, while evicting those that had paid and were living in the hotels. 0db3<\/p>\n

He insisted that no amount of intimidation and harassment would deter party members from attending the flag-off from all over the country. 0db3<\/p>\n

Maishanu assured Nigerians that the flag-off would take place on schedule, with the Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the State Party leader, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, and other party leaders and members in attendance. 0db3<\/p>\n

He said delegates were arriving Sokoto from different parts of the country for the ceremony, despite the alleged accommodation challenges.<\/p>\n

As at the time of filing this report, efforts to get the reaction of the Sokoto State Government to the allegation were yet to yield result.<\/p>\n

The ADC campaign flag-off, scheduled for Saturday, October 31, 2026, is expected to formally kick-start Atiku Abubakar’s presidential campaign for the 2027 general election in Sokoto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mohammed Abubakar The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the Sokoto State Government of instructing hotels in Sokoto to deny accommodation to its delegates ahead of its presidential campaign flag-off scheduled for Saturday. The party alleged that both government-owned and privately-owned hotels in the town had been booked, with delegates told that there were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19153,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19150\/revisions\/19153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}