Why I Dumped APC For ADC – Ex APC National Chairman Adamu
By Morris Nor// 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 APC 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 APC 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. He got elected to the Senate in 2007 to represent Nasarawa West senatorial district on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Republic (PDP).
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, 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 others 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.
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