Former Adamawa Speaker Mijinyawa resigns from APC over primary election

The numerical strength of the Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has continued to decline, with notable members leaving the party.

The latest defection involves a former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Kabiru Mijinyawa.

Mijinyawa, who was Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly between 2015 and 2019 when APC’s Jibrilla Bindow was governor, represents Yola South Constituency in the House of Assembly, where he is a fourth-term lawmaker after first being elected in 2011.

In his letter of resignation from the APC, Mijinyawa blamed his decision on the conduct of the party’s House of Representatives primary, which he described as lacking fairness and transparency.

“I can no longer associate myself with a process that I consider unjustifiable and contrary to the ideals of democracy,” he stated.

Mijinyawa had sought to move up the political ladder by contesting for a seat in the House of Representatives, but he lost the party’s primary election to a former Chief Executive of the Rural Electrification Agency, Ahmad Salihijo, a result he questioned in his resignation letter.

MEDIA TODAY gathered on Monday that Mijinyawa is headed to the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), the party which gained ascendancy in the state towards the weekend after it was reported that a former APC governorship aspirant, Abdulrahman Haske, had joined the party and become its governorship candidate.

Some other APC members resigned earlier in the past week, leaving the party appearing to be in gradual decline ahead of the 2027 election.