{"id":337363,"date":"2026-04-23T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/critics-warn-tinubus-apc-puts-democracy-at-risk-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:00:47","slug":"critics-warn-tinubus-apc-puts-democracy-at-risk-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/critics-warn-tinubus-apc-puts-democracy-at-risk-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics warn Tinubu&#8217;s APC puts democracy at risk | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/2Ii11GCB9L8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Critics warn Tinubu's APC puts democracy at risk | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Ii11GCB9L8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s opposition is in freefall. Governors, senators, and lawmakers are defecting to President Bola Tinubu\u2019s ruling APC at a pace the country has never seen before. The party now controls 31 of Nigeria\u2019s 36 states. With general elections just months away, civil society groups are sounding the alarm \u2014 and asking an uncomfortable question: is the opposition collapsing so fast that any election risks becoming a foregone conclusion?<\/p>\n<p>#dwnewsafrica #dwcurrentaffairs #nigeria <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s opposition is in freefall. Governors, senators, and lawmakers are defecting to President Bola Tinubu\u2019s ruling APC at a pace the country has never seen before. The party now controls 31 of Nigeria\u2019s 36 states. With general elections just months away, civil society groups are sounding the alarm \u2014 and asking an uncomfortable question: is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[149746,134037,130349],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-337363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-freefall","tag-nigerias","tag-opposition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Critics warn Tinubu&#039;s APC puts democracy at risk | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Critics warn Tinubu&#039;s APC puts democracy at risk | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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