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Ahead of the August bye-election, the All Progressives Congress, APC, faces internal squabbles in four strategic local government areas in the southern part of Adamawa State.
DAILY POST reports that a factional crisis is tearing the party apart in Ganye LGA where the by-election is scheduled for August 2025 and in Toungo, Jada and Mayo-Belwa where unity will also be necessary towards the 2027 general elections.
The reality of two splinter APC groups in the four LGAs is indeed viewed beyond the August by-election in Ganye to the coming 2027 general election season.
The same disunity accounted for loss of the governorship position, as evident in 2019 and then 2023.
Within Ganye, Toungo, Jada and Mayo-Belwa, the APC exists in two groups: one led by Senator Abubakar MoAllahyidi, and another by a prominent traditional title holder, the Walin Ganye, Alhaji Sadiq Wali.
The rival factions held parallel consultative stakeholders’ meetings simultaneously in Ganye on Sunday, June 29, 2025.
The splinter group led by MoAllahyidi, otherwise called the G-20, a group of 20 stakeholders drawn from the four LGAs held its meeting at Poskum Hall in Ganye metropolis, while the one led by Sadiq Wali took place at his personal residence in Ganye.
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.
With the prevailing disunity in the APC, retaining the seat now looks a near impossibility, prompting many in the party to urge for necessary reconciliation.
Abubakar MoAllahyidi and Abdulrazak Namdas have said that the purpose of their G-20 meetings was to foster brotherhood and cooperation towards the Ganye by-election.
They urged the people to ignore subversive elements who appear to thrive only when the party goes through a crisis.
The crisis in the APC around the Ganye Emirate is reminiscent of the seasonal crisis that has repeatedly dogged the APC across the entire Adamawa State since 2019.
Senator Jibrilla Bindow who was the state governor under the APC from 2015 failed to retain his seat when he sought to do so during the 2019 governorship election, as the APC became disjointed after he got the ticket to contest for his second term.
To get the APC ticket for the 2019 election, Bindow had defeated Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the current national security adviser, as well as Dr Mahmood Halilu, a brother of the first lady at the time, Aisha Buhari.
Both Rubadu and Haliku had allegedly worked against Bindow, hence the loss of that election by the APC to Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
PDP’s Fintiri again won the governorship election in 2023 thanks largely to disunity in the APC, as was widely believed, again arising mainly from the APC primary election won by Senator Aishatu Ahmed (Binani) who defeated five men, including Ribadu, Bindow and the others to collect the ticket.
It was widely believed that the big names in the APC who lost the governorship ticket to Binani mostly behaved as those in 2019 did against the APC ticket holder in the 2019 governorship election, hence the party’s loss once more in 2023.
