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Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha has dismissed reports linking him to plans to leave the All Progressives Congress (APC) for a newly formed coalition group.
In a statement personally signed on Sunday, Mustapha denied claims associating him with the opposition alliance and its alleged choice of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as its political platform.
“I want the general public to know that this is fake news. I am not in any opposition alliance, and I am not in any discussion with those who are involved,” he said.
Mustapha, who served as SGF under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, was recently rumoured to be a possible replacement for Vice President Kashim Shettima ahead of the 2027 elections.
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He recalled his role as a founding member of the APC in 2013, noting that he was the Deputy National Chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) before the merger that produced the APC.
“As the Deputy National Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria, the largest political party with six governors at the time of the merger and the formation of the APC, I can rightly claim that I am one of the founding fathers of the governing party,” he stated.
“I cannot, therefore, in all reasonableness, walk away from a party I helped to form. I am in the APC. If our party has problems, as all the other parties do, we will stay in the party and fix those problems.”
Mustapha, who hails from Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State, stressed: “We don’t solve problems by decamping to other parties.”
