Atiku Abubakar Refuses To Fund APC In Adamawa

The main opposition party All Progressives Congress (APC) may fail in the hometown of ex-vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, as he refused to sponsor the campaign organisation in Adamawa state in the coming elections.

Atiku who is supposedly one of the richest man in the APC in Adamawa state is refusing to finance the party’s campaign in his state because of a disagreement between him and Alhaji Jibrilla Mohammad Bindow, the party’s governorship candidate for the state.



Bindow allegedly supported Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano state during the APC presidential primaries and has to been known to boast about how he can win the poll without Atiku’s help.
The APC Adamawa campaign train is supposedly short of funds and may lose the poll if a miracle does not happen soon.

The party leader in the state said:  “Even during the last presidential primaries of the APC, news went around that Bindow did not support Atiku, his statesman, but they said he supported Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State.”

He said another reason was that Bindow overcame Atiku’s offered candidate, Alhaji Ibrahim Yayaji, during the last governorship primaries of the party in the state.

The sources suggested that the news got to Atiku, continuing that the ex-vice-president decided to keep quiet and watch Bindow, who has not shown any regret over his utterances that reportedly belittled Atiku’s political integrity.

The deputy director of Bindow’s campaign organisation, Alhaji Abdurrahman Jimata, made the claim at a party meeting held in Yola, decrying the lack of donations to campaign funds by party members, and warning that it would not help the campaign team to achieve its plans.

He explained that the people on the campaign train sponsored themselves during the last campaign tour before the shift of polls.

“Nobody contributed money for the campaign activities but we heard all sorts of things. Honestly, there is no donation from anybody no matter what the people may think,” he said.

Meanwhile, recent successes in the ongoing fight against terrorism by the federal government and the army have enabled the APC gubernatorial candidate, Bindow, to relocate to Mubi for a house-to-house campaign.

Nigeria’s former vice president Atiku Abubakar has joined the opposition – the most high-profile in a wave of defections from the ruling party.

Atiku lost the party’s primary to General Buhari but congratulated him minutes after the results were announced and has since vowed his support.