Tobi Adebayo
Nigerian politician, Adamu Garba has resigned his membership from the All Progressives Congress (APC) over “exclusionary practices” by the party for the 2023 elections.
Garba announced his resignation in a letter addressed to APC chairman in Karewa ward, Adamawa state and shared on his social media handles.
He also published a list of the donors that contributed the sum of N83m for the purchase of his presidential form and asked if they wished to be refunded.
“My resignation was due to the fact that APC as a party has lost its moral bearing and has taken to some exclusionary practices which are against standard democratic tenets,” the resignation letter reads.
“More importantly, as a young man who believes in the future of Nigeria and had high hopes in APC before now, I cannot continue to retain membership of a party that favours money beyond competency, vested interest beyond common interest, chronic elitism beyond public good, politics of exclusion beyond inclusion.
“I do not, in all honesty, sincerely and with consciousness, believe that any young man in Nigeria has a future or model worthy of emulation for the benefit of Nigeria in APC. I believe the party has drifted so much from the original beliefs of its foundation to a something more cynical, undemocratic institution.
“I further believe that the party has failed in its promises to deliver public good over the years, betrayed the public trust, and has turned out to be doing much worse than what we fought so hard to dethrone in the then PDP government.
“Worst is the issue of internal security, that the party paid more attention to propaganda media statements that listening to the yearning of the people,” he explained.
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