The All Progressives Congress, or APC, is embroiled in internal conflicts in four key local government districts in southern Adamawa State ahead of the August bye-election.
According to the DAILY POST, the party is being torn apart by a factional crisis in Ganye LGA, where a by-election is planned for August 2025, and in Toungo, Jada, and Mayo-Belwa, where unity will also be required in preparation for the general elections in 2027.
From the August by-election in Ganye to the upcoming general election season in 2027, the reality of two split APC factions in the four LGAs is indeed taken into consideration.
The loss of the governorship position in 2019 and 2023 was caused by the same disunity.
The APC has two factions in Ganye, Toungo, Jada, and Mayo-Belwa: one headed by Senator Abubakar MoAllahyidi, and another by Alhaji Sadiq Wali, a well-known traditional title holder and the Walin Ganye.
On Sunday, June 29, 2025, the opposing groups concurrently convened parallel consultative stakeholders’ meetings in Ganye.
While Sadiq Wali’s splinter group convened in his home in Ganye, the G-20, which was led by MoAllahyidi and consisted of 20 stakeholders from the four LGAs, gathered at Poskum Hall in Ganye city.
The G-20 meeting was attended by people who included the immediate past House of Representatives member for the Toungo/Ganye/Jada/Mayo Belwa federal constituency, Abdulrazak Namdas, current and past party exco members and former local government chairmen from the axis, among others.
The one led by the Walin Ganye was attended by Alhaji Mansur Toungo, Mohammad Mayas, Alhaji Umaru Hammajoda Farang, Alhaji Bashir Usman Boro, and party excos from the four LGAs.
Sources said the meeting convened by Wali dwelt on marshalling robust strategies of winning the forthcoming Ganye constituency by-election which was occupied by APC’s Abdulmalik Jauro Musa who died last year, on May 24, 2024.
Abdullahi Jauro’s death made the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to schedule the bye-election for August this year.
Many members of the APC are calling for the required reconciliation because of the party’s current split, which makes holding onto the seat seem very impossible.
According to Abubakar MoAllahyidi and Abdulrazak Namdas, the goal of their G-20 gatherings was to promote unity and collaboration in the run-up to the Ganye by-election.
They advised the populace to disregard subversive elements, which seem to flourish exclusively at times of difficulty for the party.
The seasonal problem that has plagued the APC in Adamawa State since 2019 is reminiscent of the current APC conflict in the Ganye Emirate.
In the 2019 governorship election, Senator Jibrilla Bindow, who served as the state governor under the APC in 2015, was unable to hold onto his seat since the APC split after he was given the ticket to run for a second term.
Bindow defeated Dr. Mahmood Halilu, the brother of then-first lady Aisha Buhari, and Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the current national security adviser, to secure the APC ticket for the 2019 election.
According to reports, Haliku and Rubadu conspired against Bindow, which is why the APC lost that election to Ahmadu Fintiri of the PDP.
It was generally assumed that the APC’s division, which resulted mostly from the APC primary election won by Senator Aishatu Ahmed (Binani), who defeated five men, including Ribadu, Bindow, and the others, to secure the ticket, was the key reason why PDP’s Fintiri won the governorship race in 2023.
The main APC figures who lost the governorship ticket to Binani were thought to have acted similarly to those who opposed the APC ticket holder in the 2019 governorship race, which is why the party lost again in 2023.
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