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We are here assembled to address you on the state of our party, the APC, the state of the nation and the future of our experiment in constitutional democracy, in Nigeria. 2. You will recall that in the build up to the 2015 General elections, some political parties and groups came together, and formed a brand new political party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. This merger was based on the strong belief that Nigeria had come of age, but was severely underperforming and unable to meet its potentials for good governance. The Nigerian people entrusted power to the APC based on its promises and potentials. 3. We are sad to report that after more than three years of governance, our hopes have been betrayed, our expectations completely dashed. The APC has run a rudderless, inept and incompetent government that has failed to deliver good governance to the Nigerian people. It has rather imposed dictatorship, impunity, abuse of power, complete abdication of constitutional and statut

The new faction is named Reformed-APC (R-APC) with Buba Galadima appointed as the Chairman. The new faction is made up of aggrieved members of the APC, mostly from the National Assembly. Briefing journalists after their meeting at the Sheraton Hotels in Abuja this evening, the chairman, Galadima, said the new faction was formed due to the failure of the APC. They described APC as “severely underperforming and unable to meet its potentials for good governance.” During the  Nigerian Fourth Republic , established in May 1999, Galadima became a chieftain of the leading opposition party, the  All Nigeria People's Party  (ANPP). In June 2002 Galadima was interviewed on a proposal by President  Olusegun Obasanjo  to restructure local governments in the country. He expressed his party's opposition to the move. He said that Obasanjo, "the usurper president of this country", was trying to sneak in the changes surreptitiously, giving state governors the right to ap

By Banji Ja' Afar Datti Baba Ahmed or DBA as he is fondly called is a symbolic epitome of a modest, successful and exemplary life. At just 48 years of age, he has shown himself to be a successful scholar, technocrat, businessman and politician. Born on 29 January 1969 in Zaria, Kaduna State where he had his primary school education, Datti Baba Ahmed later proceeded to the Airforce Military School, Jos where he sat for and passed his GCE O’level exams with flying colours in 1986. He thereafter commenced his tertiary education at the University of Maiduguri where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics in 1992. Not being one to rest on his oars, he would subsequently add more laurels to his academic cap by obtaining two different Masters Degrees; namely an MSc in Economics from the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria in 1995 and an MBA from the University of Wales, Cardiff in 1996. In 2006, he obtained a PhD from the University of Westminster, Londo