{"id":1575,"date":"2024-08-10T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2024-08-10T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:44:03","slug":"2027-presidential-race-count-me-out-tony-elumelu-says-not-everyone-can-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/2027-presidential-race-count-me-out-tony-elumelu-says-not-everyone-can-be-president\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 presidential race: Count me out &#8211; Tony Elumelu, says not everyone can be president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1573\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/download-8-4-198x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/download-8-4-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/download-8-4.jpeg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elumelu<\/p>\n<p>By Amah<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tony Elumelu, Chairman of United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, has put paid to his rumoured ambition to contest for president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, he admitted being frustrated with Nigeria\u2019s past leaders, but added that believes one needs not to be president to make a difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He made the disclosure in an interview with the Financial Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked directly if he would run for president, the 61-year-old business mogul laughed and said, \u201cPeople ask me this question. All of us don\u2019t have to be president, but what we all want is good leadership. We will coalesce around people we believe are providing good leadership.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The businessman enjoys a close relationship with incumbent President Bola Tinubu, who is expected to seek re-election in 2027.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was recently appointed as a member of Tinubu\u2019s economic team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elumelu By Amah Kindly share: Tony Elumelu, Chairman of United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,3],"tags":[465,458,466],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-economy","category-news","category-politics","tag-heirs-holding","tag-tony-elumelu","tag-united-bank-of-africa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2027 presidential race: Count me out - Tony Elumelu, says not everyone can be president - Panorama News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/2027-presidential-race-count-me-out-tony-elumelu-says-not-everyone-can-be-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027 presidential race: Count me out - Tony Elumelu, says not everyone can be president - Panorama News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elumelu By Amah Kindly share: Tony Elumelu, Chairman of United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, has&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/2027-presidential-race-count-me-out-tony-elumelu-says-not-everyone-can-be-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Panorama News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/panoramanewsng\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-10T13:44:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/download-8-4.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"332\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"502\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/2027-presidential-race-count-me-out-tony-elumelu-says-not-everyone-can-be-president\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/2027-presidential-race-count-me-out-tony-elumelu-says-not-everyone-can-be-president\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/193c6b5ed75edb6cc8b07827dd05f83d\"},\"headline\":\"2027 presidential race: Count me out &#8211; 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