7th September 2025
Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, is not leaving the party, his spokesperson, Edwin Olofu, has said.
He dismissed speculation that Ganduje planned to join the African Democratic Congress, barely two months after stepping down from the leadership of the ruling party.
The clarification followed weeks of speculation suggesting that the former Kano State governor was preparing to leave the APC with his followers after his abrupt resignation on June 27, 2025.
Ganduje had cited health grounds for stepping down as the APC chairman after nearly two years in office, a decision that came as a shock to many party members and political observers nationwide.
The Kano politician, who took over the APC national chairmanship on August 3, 2023, at an emergency meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee, became the sixth chairman of the ruling party in just over a decade.
His predecessors are Chief Bisi Akande (former governor of Osun State); his Edo counterpart, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun (who is now in ADC); Adams Oshiomhole (now a senator); Mai Mala Buni (Yobe governor, who took over as a caretaker); and Senator Abdullahi Adamu (ex-governor of Nasarawa).
However, Olofu said Ganduje remained committed to the ruling party and had no plans to abandon President Bola Tinubu.
It is just fake news.”
When asked if Ganduje had met with President Tinubu after his resignation, Olofu explained that such details could only be confirmed by the former chairman himself.
Responding to suggestions that Ganduje’s recent visit to the new APC National Chairman, Nentawe Yilwatda, was a move to reconcile with President Tinubu, Olofu maintained that the meeting had dual significance.
“It was first a personal one and a condolence visit. I was also there with him. When you listen, you would have heard him even saying that he supports the new chairman because there is a bond between the predecessor and the successor.
“Ganduje is not someone who will not wish whoever succeeds him well. He doesn’t think like that. That is why you see some former governors and chairmen of local governments have problems like that.
“No, he doesn’t belong to that school of thought. He told Yilwatda that he is going to lend him support whenever he needs it, and the man himself was very happy,” he added.
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