Senator Yar’adua Dumps APC, Joins ADC In North

Senator Yar’adua has dumped APC and joined ADC in North.

 

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that a former federal lawmaker, Senator Abubakar Sadiq Yar’adua has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

In a letter dated July 28, 2025, addressed to his APC Ward chairman in Katsina State, Yar’adua cited deep frustration with the party’s leadership and alleged failures in governance as reasons for his exit from the APC.

 

According to the former lawmaker, he could no longer support a party whose government imposes “destructive economic policies that undermine the welfare, dignity, and livelihoods of Nigerians.”

 

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He accused the present administration of being “bad, selfish and stinkingly corrupt” that prioritises the interests of a few elites over the suffering masses,” recalling his early sacrifices as one of the founding members of both the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and later the APC.

 

While stating that those who once championed change have now become worse than the administration they ousted, Yar’adua said they have turned the APC into a reactionary force, betraying the ideals of service to the common people.

 

He said: “I cannot sit idly by and remain in a political party that has completely abandoned its foundational principles of being a servant of our teeming talakawa (masses).”

 

Yar’Adua criticised the current APC leadership, saying those in government have become what former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai once called “urban bandits,” or in his own words, “bandits in government.”

 

He called on his supporters, associates, and admirers across Katsina State and beyond to join him in the African Democratic Congress (ADC), a party he described as committed to changing the country’s political trajectory and restoring Nigeria’s lost glory.