{"id":152688,"date":"2025-02-25T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/i-feel-stranded-that-apc-left-me-but-i-wont-retire-from-politics-el-rufai"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:41:41","slug":"i-feel-stranded-that-apc-left-me-but-i-wont-retire-from-politics-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/i-feel-stranded-that-apc-left-me-but-i-wont-retire-from-politics-el-rufai","title":{"rendered":"I feel stranded that APC left me, but I won\u2019t retire from politics \u2013 El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has expressed deep concerns over the state of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that the APC has left him and that the party has abandoned its founding principles.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday, El-Rufai said while he remains politically active, he no longer recognizes the party he helped establish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t say I have no intentions of leaving the APC; I said that APC is my party\u2014I founded it,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the APC has left me; I didn\u2019t leave the APC. We founded this party based on certain values, but today, the party has moved away from them. I feel stranded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai criticized the party\u2019s failure to uphold internal democracy, pointing out that key decision-making bodies such as the National Caucus and the National Executive Committee (NEC) had not convened in over two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the organs of the party meet, they provide feedback to the government on how it is aligning its policies with the party\u2019s manifesto. That\u2019s the purpose of these meetings. The APC constitution mandates that the NEC meets at least once every quarter, but for two years, no meeting has taken place,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister revealed that he had sought clarity from previous APC national chairmen, including Chief Bisi Akande, Adams Oshiomhole, John Odigie-Oyegun, and Abdullahi Adamu, but none could explain the party\u2019s current state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have visited all of them, Baba Akande, Oshiomhole, Oyegun, and just yesterday, I went to Keffi to see Abdullahi Adamu. I asked them the same question: \u2018What is happening to our party?\u2019 But nobody has answers because the party has not met for two years. There have been no conversations,\u201d El-Rufai disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his concerns, the former governor insisted he was not ready to retire from politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will remain in politics for life, but that doesn\u2019t mean I will keep contesting elections. I believe I have a role to play in influencing what happens in our party so that we have better candidates and better governors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai, however, did not rule out the possibility of seeking another political platform if the APC fails to realign with its founding ideals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I can\u2019t find those progressive values in APC, sooner or later, I may have to find another platform to pursue them. But I still hope the party will correct its course,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>As the APC prepares to hold a National Caucus and NEC meeting, El-Rufai said he expects the leadership to reflect on why the party has deviated from its core principles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has expressed deep concerns over the state of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He revealed that the APC has left him and that the party has abandoned its founding principles. Speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday, El-Rufai said while he remains politically active, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":152687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,1651,254],"class_list":["post-152688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I feel stranded that APC left me, but I won\u2019t retire from politics \u2013 El-Rufai - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/i-feel-stranded-that-apc-left-me-but-i-wont-retire-from-politics-el-rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I feel stranded that APC left me, but I won\u2019t retire from politics \u2013 El-Rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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