Former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has formally pitched his political tent with the African Democratic Congress (ADC), marking a decisive break from the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party he helped build more than a decade ago.
El-Rufai completed his registration on Thursday, November 27, 2025, at the ADC office in the U/Sarki Ward of Kaduna North Local Government Area, where he was issued his membership card.
He arrived at the ward secretariat in the company of a strong contingent of loyalists, including former commissioners, aides, and past local government chairmen who have stood with him since his exit from the ruling party.
His move to the ADC comes months after he renounced his APC membership on March 10, citing what he described as an irreparable gulf between his convictions and the direction the party had taken under its current leadership.
In the strongly worded resignation letter he made public at the time, the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory accused the APC of straying far from the progressive ideals that inspired the 2013 merger that birthed the party.
“Developments in the last two years confirm that there is no desire on the part of those who currently control and run the APC to acknowledge, much less address, the unhealthy situation of the party,” El-Rufai had written, lamenting that the vision that once energised the coalition had been lost.
He noted that for two years he consistently warned, both privately and in public, about what he perceived as the party’s derailment, but said his concerns were repeatedly dismissed by those at the helm.
With his formal entry into the ADC, political watchers say El-Rufai may be positioning himself for a new political alignment ahead of 2027, potentially altering the dynamics within Kaduna politics and beyond.
