A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, has raised alarm over what he described as a growing disconnect between the harsh realities facing Nigeria and the filtered information being fed to President Bola Tinubu by his close allies.
Speaking during an appearance on Politics Today, a programme aired on Channels Television on Tuesday, Garba alleged that sycophants within the corridors of power are misleading the President by creating a false impression of normalcy in the country and within the ruling party.
“There is a lot of sycophancy around the president,” Garba declared. “People are telling him that things are okay – things are not okay.”
His remarks come amid rising political tensions and the recent resignation of former APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, which many have described as a sign of internal crisis within the party.
Garba also addressed the emergence of a new opposition coalition under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), warning that the group poses a credible threat to the ruling party’s dominance. He described the coalition as “vultures ready to feed on the weakness of the APC.”
“They [ADC coalition] hope for our loss, and that is why we need to be serious,” he cautioned. “That is the more reason why we need a leadership that listens to criticisms and accepts facts without flattery or denial.”
Commenting on the declining influence of the APC in the northern region, Garba attributed much of the erosion in support to the absence of former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died in early July 2025.
He noted that even before Buhari’s passing, the party had already begun to lose its electoral stronghold in the north.
“In 2023, the APC managed only 5.5 million votes in the north. Where were the 12 million votes?” he asked. “Yet we won the election based on structures and strategy. But now, without Buhari, we must re-engineer those strategies to remain relevant.”
Garba’s warning appears to be a call for introspection and strategic recalibration within the APC, particularly as new political alliances continue to emerge ahead of future elections.
