Senator Abubakar Sadiq Yaradua has officially resigned his membership from the All Progressives Congress (APC), delivering a scathing critique of the party’s current leadership and what he described as its abandonment of core democratic principles.
In a letter dated July 28, 2025, addressed to the APC Ward Chairman of Wakilin Gabas II Ward in Katsina Local Government Area, the Katsina-born lawmaker announced his resignation “with happiness,” citing deep disappointment in the party’s current direction and performance in governance.
“As a sitting Senator, then, I and many other progressives made great sacrifices to unite forces against the then President Goodluck Jonathan’s lame-duck government,” Senator Yaradua recalled, referencing his early involvement in the political movement that birthed the APC.
However, the Senator lamented that the very individuals who had championed change in 2015 had now become the agents of regression.
“Today, the same elements, who pretended to be ‘comrades’ in that struggle, have laid siege on the nation and surprisingly turned out to be more retrogressive and re-actionary than those we removed in the 2015 general elections,” he wrote.
Senator Yaradua did not mince words in condemning the current government’s policies and alleged neglect of citizens’ welfare. He accused the APC-led government of standing by “unashamedly” as Nigerians are “maimed, intimidated, sexually-harassed, assaulted, killed, and uprooted from their lands, livelihood and life possessions.”
“I cannot sit idly by and remain in a political party that has completely abandoned its foundational principles and objectives of being a servant of our teeming Talakawa (masses),” he declared.
Yaradua also criticized the economic policies of the ruling administration, stating that they are destructive to the lives, welfare, and dignity of Nigerians.
“Those in government have truly become what Malam Nasir El-Rufai would refer to as ‘urban bandits,’ or in my view, ‘bandits in government,’” he added.
Following his resignation from the APC, Senator Yaradua announced his decision to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which he described as “a party for all Nigerians” that aims to reshape the political future of the country and restore Nigeria’s lost glory.
He concluded by calling on his supporters and political associates to join him in the new movement under the ADC platform.
