Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has formally pitched his tent with the African Democratic Congress (ADC), months after severing ties with the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party he once helped to build.
El-Rufai completed his registration on Thursday at the ADC ward office in Unguwan Sarki, Kaduna, where he filled out the party’s membership documents and received his ADC membership card.
His appearance at the grassroots office—rather than a grand political stage—signaled a deliberate, low-key but symbolic re-entry into partisan politics.
This development comes after El-Rufai’s dramatic departure from the APC on March 10, 2025, a move he said was driven by an irreconcilable rift between his long-held ideals and the current direction of the ruling party.
In his resignation letter, the former governor accused the APC leadership of abandoning the values on which the party was founded.
According to him, actions of party leaders over the past two years revealed “no intention to even acknowledge, let alone correct, the troubling state of the party.”
El-Rufai—who was instrumental in the 2013 opposition merger that birthed the APC—lamented that the party had drifted far from its original mission.
He reflected on the early movement that propelled the party to prominence, noting that the present structure bore little resemblance to the vision shared by its founders.
He added that despite issuing repeated warnings—both privately and publicly—his concerns were consistently ignored by those steering the party’s affairs.
By joining the ADC, El-Rufai now positions himself within a growing opposition platform, marking a significant shift in the political landscape ahead of future national realignments.
