The Zamfara State Coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organisation in the 2023 presidential election, Senator Kabiru Marafa, has resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Marafa represented Zamfara Central Senatorial District between 2011 and 2019. He announced his resignation alongside his political structure, accusing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of being a “use-and-dump leader.”
Tinubu got victory in Zamfara State during the 2023 polls, defeating former vice [resident, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, with Marafa serving as the chief campaign strategist for the ruling party in the state.
During the campaigns, Marafa had urged Tinubu not to bother visiting Zamfara, boasting that the state was already secured for him.
However, in a communiqué issued on Friday after a two-day meeting of his supporters under the aegis of the Senator Kabiru Marafa Consultative Forum, the former lawmaker said both he and the state had been sidelined since Tinubu’s emergence as President.
The meeting, which was held in Kaduna on August 27 and 28, brought together Marafa’s supporters from the 14 local government areas of Zamfara.
In the communiqué signed by Bashir Mafara, Mannir Tsafe and seven others, the group said the mass resignation was in protest against what it described as sustained injustice, mistrust, marginalisation, and deliberate neglect of Zamfara State and its people.
“The entire structure with all its supporters hereby formally resigns from the All Progressives Congress in protest against the sustained injustice, mistrust, marginalisation, and deliberate neglect of Zamfara State and its people. We shall, in due course, announce our next political direction, guided by the collective interest of the good people of Zamfara State,” the communiqué partly read.
