Former Zamfara Central Senator Kabiru Marafa, who served from 2011 to 2019, has resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He cited the ruling party’s “betrayal” of its members as the reason for his departure.
In a video addressing his supporters, the former lawmaker accused the party of causing division among its members in Zamfara State.
Marafa, who was the Zamfara State Coordinator for the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organization in the 2023 presidential election, said in Hausa that he made the decision to resign after days of consultation, citing “severe betrayal and division within the APC.”
Marafa said: “I want to use this medium to inform my supporters in Zamfara state, north and Nigeria as a whole that after a series of meetings with my people for about two days regarding the issue of politics starting from two years back of the APC government, we feel it is necessary to inform the public that APC as a party has betrayed and cheated us in Zamfara state and Nigeria.
“In the state, the betrayal is at its highest peak because since Bala Buni took over the affairs of the party from former governor Matawalle, they have not held a single meeting up till this moment.
“The party has been divided into two parts: one part is for Bala Buni and the other is for Matawalle. This is two years and six months now, we ask them to resolve their differences, and nothing has been done.”
Marafa is not the first prominent politician to leave the ruling party.
Persecondnews recalls that the former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, left APC in March 2025, citing the party’s alleged deviation from its progressive ideals.
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