A former member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Barrister Makpa Malla, has resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC), citing alleged manipulation and lack of internal democracy during the party’s recently concluded governorship primaries.

Malla, who represented Wamba Constituency in the 5th Assembly, announced his resignation in a letter addressed to the APC Chairman of Wamba East Ward and dated May 26, 2026.

In the letter, the former lawmaker said his decision to quit the ruling party followed what he described as persistent injustice, imposition, and the absence of transparent democratic processes within the APC.

He specifically accused the party leadership of undermining credibility during the governorship primaries, which produced Senator Ahmed Aliyu Wadada as the party’s candidate.

According to him, the conduct of the exercise further exposed what he called a growing culture of impunity allegedly perpetrated by the party’s State Working Committee under the leadership of Alhaji Aliyu Bello.

Malla stated that the developments had completely diminished his confidence in the ideals of justice, fairness, equity, and democratic participation which the party was expected to uphold.

“I can no longer, in good conscience, continue to associate myself with a system that disregards the collective will of members and undermines democratic values,” he stated.

The resignation comes amid mounting tension and growing dissatisfaction within the APC in Nasarawa State following allegations of irregularities during the governorship primary election.

His exit also comes barely hours after former Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, reportedly resigned from the party over claims of fraudulent practices and manipulation during the same governorship primaries.

A former member of the House of Representatives from Kano State, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has suggested what the opposition can do to give the party and President Bola Tinubu a sleepless night in 2027.

Jibrin said if the opposition had come together to form a united front, they would have given Tinubu and the APC a sleepless night.

Featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today, the former lawmaker said Tinubu would defeat opposition in 2027.

According to Jibrin: “The more they come out the better the chances of Tinubu, the more they increase in number to contest, the better the chances.

“The simple dynamics that would have given us a little sleepless night where we will wake up and really work is if the opposition had all come out to work together and did exactly what Tinubu did in 2015, bringing everybody together bringing Buhari, members of the National Assembly together, bringing Southwest governors, went after all the governors that they needed and at the end of the day, they got five governors. He made sure the opposition was uptight but we are not having that Today.”

Jibrin said the more the opposition divide themselves, the more they split their votes in 2027.

“The more they divide themselves the more they split their votes but the vote of the president continues to remain intact, none of them is taking anything from the vote the president is going to get. 

“Even if they come all together, the president would still defeat them,” he added.

A chieftain of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, has urged President Bola Tinubu to go back to his retirement home if he cannot deliver dividend of democracy to Nigerians.

Obi made this call during the NDC aspirants dinner held in Abuja.

The former Labour Party presidential candidate stated that the president should stop giving excuses, noting that the time for excuses has passed.

“What I’m seeing I can change, and that’s why I want the office. I’m not looking for it to give excuses.

“We cannot hire people who will give us excuses again. The time for excuses have passed. If you cannot work now, go home.

“The office is for people who have the competent, passion capacity, commitment and character to lead,” he said.

DAILY POST recalls that Obi and former presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabi’u Kwankwaso, left the African Democratic Congress, ADC, for NDC, citing internal divisions and court cases as reasons.