Former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai has formally joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC), months after resigning from the All Progressives Congress.
El-Rufai registered with the ADC and collected his membership card at the party’s U/Sarki Ward office in Kaduna.
The former FCT minister quit the APC on March 10, citing what he described as a widening disconnect between his values and the party’s current direction. In his resignation letter, he accused the ruling party’s leadership of abandoning the progressive ideals on which it was founded.
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“Developments in the last two years confirm that there is no desire on the part of those who currently control and run the APC to acknowledge, much less address, the unhealthy situation of the party,” he wrote at the time.
El-Rufai said he had repeatedly warned the APC leadership—privately and publicly—about what he viewed as the party’s drift, but claimed his concerns were ignored.
The former governor, a key figure in the 2013 merger that produced the APC, said the party had lost its founding vision.
