Bombshell! APC Rep Says Party Is Without Cohesion, Will Not Seek Re-Election

In what could be described as a damaging verdict on the All Progressives Congress (APC), one of its lawmakers in the House of Representatives, Hon. Abubakar Chika Adamu, has said he would not be seeking re-election on the platform of the party in 2019 because the APC lacks cohesion for the common good.

Adamu, who represents Shiroro/Rafi/Munya Federal Constituency, in a letter to the state chairman of the APC, Niger State, dated November 16, 2017, said, “In line with the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), that any person seeking to be appointed, or elected into public office should be rejected. Now that there is eroding public trust in legislators in the National Assembly, it is not worth the trouble to seek for such office unless it is for my selfish and personal interest.”

According to the lawmaker, “Though I have quite a number of reason not to ontest the upcoming elections, I want to draw the attention of our great party APC in Niger State of the disconnect between the governance in the state, and the membership of the National Assembly, the State Assembly and other key stakeholders because there is an absence of synergy. We are in pursuit of individual agendas and as such at loggerheads with the ideals of our great party.”

While thanking the party for offering him the ticket to run for election in 2015, he stressed that “now that the 2019 election is ringing the bell, I wish to inform you in earnest that I am not personally interested in contesting or recontesting the position I am currently occupying.”

It would be recalled that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar resigned his membership of the APC last Friday citing the unbecoming anti-democratic norms in the party.