Tinubu’s presidential campaign coordinator dumps APC
Zamfara State Coordinator for the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign in the 2023 elections, Kabiru Marafa, has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former senator, who represented Zamfara Central between 2011 and 2019, made the decision through his political base, the Senator Kabiru Marafa Consultative Forum, after a two-day meeting in Kaduna.
The communique issued by the forum confirmed that Marafa’s entire political structure in Zamfara has also pulled out of the ruling party.
The group said the move was in protest against what they described as injustice, mistrust, and neglect of Zamfara and its people by the APC-led government.
Although Marafa’s exit has been confirmed by close associates, it is unclear if a formal resignation letter was sent to the party.
His supporters also disclosed that they have not yet chosen a new party but will make their political direction known at a later time.
The statement from the forum accused the national leadership of the APC and President Bola Tinubu of abandoning the principles on which the party was built.
It alleged that Marafa’s group was sidelined in Zamfara despite its role in securing electoral victory for the ruling party during the presidential election.
The communique further accused the APC-led government of politicising insecurity in Zamfara.
It pointed to the Kaura Namoda House of Assembly by-election, where heavy security was deployed for the polls, while rural communities that had suffered deadly bandit attacks weeks earlier were left without protection.
Marafa, a two-term senator and former factional leader of the APC in Zamfara, lost his bid to return to the Senate in 2023.
