Why I Dumped APC For ADC – Ex APC National Chairman Adamu

A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has dumped the ruling party for the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Adamu, who was on Thursday received into the ADC fold in Keffi, Nasarawa State, said his decision was guided by principle and conscience.

The ex-senator, who was appointed APC national chairman in March 2022, “resigned” from office in July 2023, less than two months after President Bola Tinubu was sworn in as president.

While addressing a gathering of ADC faithful at his defection arena, Adamu accused the APC of deviating from its founding ideals.

According to him, the ruling party sidelined experienced members, suppressed dissenting opinions and weakened internal democracy.

The ex-party chair served as governor of Nasarawa State for eight years, from 1999 to 2007, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

He got elected to the Senate in 2007 to represent the Nasarawa West senatorial district. While in the Senate, the 79-year-old politician had joined nine other serving PDP senators to defect to the APC in 2014.

The Nasarawa-born politician had maintained a low profile since he left office as APC national chairman, in circumstances considered cloudy by the public.

Recall that Adamu had, in the build-up to the APC presidential nominations in 2022, declared a former President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, as the party’s consensus candidate for the 2023 presidential election.

However, President Bola Tinubu defeated Lawan and 12 other aspirants to win the APC ticket and eventually won the presidential election.

Analysts and APC sources, as well, had attributed Adamu’s forced resignation as national chairman to his open hostility towards Tinubu before and during the 2023 presidential election.

Not a few believed that President Tinubu forced him to resign.

Why I Dumped APC For ADC – Ex APC National Chairman Adamu is first published on The Whistler Newspaper