- Garba blamed opposition infiltration on the vacuum left by Ganduje’s resignation as APC national chairman.
- He warned that sycophants around Tinubu were painting a false picture of the party’s health.
A former senator and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Adamu Garba, has accused aides around President Bola Tinubu of misleading him.
Garba said the president was being fed false impressions about the state of the country and the ruling party.
He made the remarks on Tuesday while speaking on Politics Today, a programme aired on Channels Television.
The APC member said the resignation of Dr Abdullahi Ganduje as national chairman had created internal vulnerability in the party.
He warned that the void had opened up room for infiltration by opposition forces operating under the African Democratic Congress.
Garba described the group as “vultures” taking advantage of APC’s internal disarray.
“They (ADC coalition) hope for our loss, and that is why we need to be serious,” the former senator said.
“That is the more reason why we need to be very sincere with ourselves and make sure that the leadership of the party is somebody that is truthful and capable of listening to criticisms and accepting the facts without any flattery, without any sycophancy, because I believe there are a lot of sycophants around the president; people are telling him that things are okay — things are not okay.”
He said the APC’s loss of popularity in the north began after the exit of former president Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
“Naturally, there is going to be this kind of tension,” he said.
“Buhari left the presidency in 2023, and when you look at the outcome of the 2023 elections, the APC had only 5.5 million votes in the north. Where were the 12 million votes?
“But yet we won the election based on the system that was established, the structures in place, and the strategies deployed.
“What we need now is to re-engineer our strategies again now with his absence.”