A outstanding Katsina politician and former federal lawmaker, Senator Abubakar Sadiq Yar’adua has introduced his resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Senator Yar’Adua cited deep frustration with the social gathering’s management and alleged failures in governance as causes for his exit from the APC.
In a strongly worded letter dated July 28, 2025, addressed to his APC Ward chairman, Yar’adua declared that he might now not assist a celebration whose authorities imposes “damaging {economic} insurance policies” that undermine the welfare, dignity, and livelihoods of Nigerians.”
He condemned what he described as a “unhealthy, egocentric and stinkingly corrupt administration” that prioritises the pursuits of some elites over the struggling plenty.”
Yar’adua recalled his early sacrifices as one of many founding members of each the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and later the APC, highlighting efforts by himself and different progressives to unseat former President Goodluck Jonathan’s authorities in 2015.
He lamented that those that as soon as championed change have now grow to be worse than the administration they ousted, turning the APC right into a reactionary drive and betraying the beliefs of service to the frequent folks.
“I can’t sit idly by and stay in a political social gathering that has fully deserted its foundational rules of being a servant of our teeming talakawa (plenty),” Yar’adua acknowledged.
Yar’Adua criticised the present APC management for standing aloof as Nigerians are maimed, intimidated, sexually harassed, assaulted, killed, and uprooted from their properties.
In his resignation letter, Yar’adua stated these in authorities have grow to be what former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai as soon as known as “city bandits,” or in his personal phrases, “bandits in authorities.”
Declaring his departure from the APC with rapid impact, Yar’adua urged his supporters, associates, and admirers throughout Katsina State and past to hitch him within the African Democratic Congress (ADC), a celebration he described as dedicated to altering the nation’s political trajectory and restoring Nigeria’s misplaced glory.
Yar’adua’s resignation marks one other high-profile defection from the ruling APC, highlighting rising discontent amongst key political figures over the administration’s dealing with of safety, {economic} hardship, and governance.
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