*“ Baba-Ahmed’s dumping of APC Saraki’s 2015 style of leaving PDP”
The former interim Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has resigned from the party.
Baba-Ahmed, who is currently the Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in a statement issued in Kaduna on Monday, said the APC has under-performed, hence his decision to exit the party but not exit his position as Chief of Staff to the APC’s Senate President..
“This has been a very difficult decision, to leave a party I helped form and made my humble contributions to put in power. After three years, however, I need to say that the APC has grossly underperformed, and has forfeited any claim to my loyalty and continued membership.
“I do not believe, in all conscience, that it should be trusted and encouraged to continue to govern our great country beyond 2019”.
He, however, added that his resignation from the APC has nothing to with the Senate President, but a decision he took after due consultations with the Akida Group, a pressure group within Kaduna state APC, which he is a critical member.
Although he noted that he will not join any other political party for now, Baba-Ahmed says he will remain active in politics, as this is the main avenue for salvaging the nation from rising insecurity, poverty, and bitter divisions.
It will be recalled that Saraki never really openly defected from People’s Democratic Party in the build up to 2015 general elections as then Senate President and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, played games with the letter of he wrote to informing the then Senate of the decision of 11 senators includuing himself and so it was not read until the APC defeated the PDP government.
Same pattern, some observers have expressed, the same Saraki’s aide is now using proving that it only shows the Saraki’s style, despite all effort by the party to put its house together in peace, of causing justifiable crisis that would aide his eventual defection from APC and still retain position as Senate President.
