Kabiru Marafa, former senator representing Zamfara central, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Marafa, who served as the Zamfara coordinator of the
Tinubu/Shettima campaign in the 2023 presidential election, accused President
Bola Tinubu of abandoning the state despite its significant contribution to his
victory.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a use-and-dump leader,”
Marafa said in a communique issued after a meeting of his political structure
in Kaduna.
The meeting, which held between August 27 and 28, was
attended by supporters of the senator under the aegis of the Kabiru Marafa Consultative
Forum.
The group deliberated on what it described as worsening
insecurity, political, and developmental indices in Zamfara.
The communique, signed by eight members, including Bashir
Muhammad Mafara, Mannir Bature Tsafe, and Muzakkiru Sidi Bawa, said the state
had been reduced to a theatre of killings and kidnappings despite Tinubu’s
campaign promises.
It claimed that 1,203 of the 4,722 people kidnapped in
Nigeria in 2024 were from Zamfara.
The forum also referenced reports by Zamfara Circle
Community Initiatives, which documented attacks on 25 villages in one week,
with 145 people abducted and 21 killed.
“Despite these tragedies, the federal government has done
nothing to protect the people, but it deployed heavy security to the state
during bye-elections only to ensure victory for the APC,” the communique reads.
The group accused the APC-led government of politicising
insecurity by neglecting communities ravaged by banditry while “spending
heavily on vote-buying” during the Kaura Namoda by-election.
The forum also decried what it described as the
marginalisation of Zamfara in political appointments.
It noted that Zamfara, one of only two states in the
north-west that handed Tinubu victory, was allocated only a minister of state,
while Lagos — where Tinubu lost — got multiple appointments in key economic
agencies.
“Mr President has never visited Zamfara since assuming
office, even though our people have suffered more severe forms of banditry than
other states that have enjoyed presidential attention and financial aid,” the
communique added.
The group said Tinubu’s actions negated the APC’s founding
principles of fairness, justice, and accountability.
It resolved that the political structure of Marafa across
all 147 wards in Zamfara has unanimously resigned from the APC.
It added that the next political move of the structure would
be announced soon, “guided by the collective interest of the good people of
Zamfara state”.
In 2023, Marafa said Tinubu would reward Zamfara for its
contribution to his electoral victory.
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