In a major political development, former Senator representing Katsina Central, Abubakar Sadiq Yar’adua, has formally resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and declared his defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
In a bold and scathing resignation letter dated July 28, 2025, addressed to his APC Ward Chairman, Senator Yar’adua lambasted the APC-led government, accusing it of championing "destructive economic policies" and betraying the Nigerian masses with “bad, selfish, and stinkingly corrupt administration.”
Yar’adua, a founding member of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and a key figure in the 2015 ousting of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government, said he could no longer be part of a party that had become “worse than the administration it replaced.”
“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),” he wrote.
He went further to accuse the current leadership of indifference while Nigerians are being “maimed, intimidated, sexually harassed, assaulted, killed, and uprooted from their homes.” He likened current political leaders to “bandits in government,” drawing from a phrase coined by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.
Declaring his immediate defection to the ADC, Senator Yar’adua called on his supporters and associates across Katsina State and beyond to join the ADC, which he described as a party “committed to changing Nigeria’s political trajectory and restoring the nation’s lost glory.”
This defection marks another high-profile exit from the APC and reflects the deepening unrest within the party amidst growing national concerns over insecurity, inflation, and declining public trust in governance.
Observers believe Yar’adua’s departure could shift the political landscape in Katsina, a state seen as a stronghold of the ruling party.
