A group of All Progressives Congress (APC), protesters from the North Central stormed the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja, on Thursday 25 April 2024 demanding the resignation of the National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje.
While addressing newsmen in Abuja, protesters said their demand followed Ganduje’s recent suspension by a faction of his ward executives and the alleged bribery allegation leveled against him by the Kano State government. The group displayed several banners with different inscriptions such as: “Ganduje must resign” and “Return the APC chairmanship to North Central.” The protesters appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to consider returning the leadership of the party to the North Central.
The protesters under the aegis of Concerned North Central APC Stakeholders decried Ganduje’s continued stay in office, saying that it was against the zoning principle of the party. Leader of the demonstrators, Mohammed Mahmud Saba, disclosed that his people in the North Central have passed a vote of no confidence on the National Chairman and equally demanded his immediate resignation.
Saba reiterated that the people of North Central felt betrayed when the position of APC national chairman was hijacked from them following the exit of Senator Abdullahi Adamu despite giving Tinubu the third highest votes after North West and South West at the 2023 presidential election.
He said, “We, the North Central APC Concerned Stakeholders, have resolved to unanimously agitate for our right and reclaim our mandate which was handed unto us by the National Convention of our great Party in 2022.”
