{"id":176689,"date":"2025-08-29T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/marafa-resigns-from-apc-accuses-party-of-betrayal"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:16:02","slug":"marafa-resigns-from-apc-accuses-party-of-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/marafa-resigns-from-apc-accuses-party-of-betrayal","title":{"rendered":"Marafa Resigns from APC Accuses Party of Betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Zamfara Central Senator, Kabiru Marafa, has dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Marafa said he resigned from the APC because the ruling party betrayed its members.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing his supporters in a video, the former lawmaker accused the party of dividing its members in Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Hausa, Marafa said the betrayal and division within the APC were severe.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that he decided to resign from the APC after days of consultation.<\/p>\n<p>Marafa said: \u201cI want to use this medium to inform my supporters in Zamfara state, north and Nigeria as a whole that after a series of meetings with my people for about two days regarding the issue of politics starting from two years back of the APC government, we feel it is necessary to inform the public that APC as a party has betrayed and cheated us in Zamfara state and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the state, the betrayal is at its highest peak because since Bala Buni took over the affairs of the party from former governor Matawalle, they have not held a single meeting up till this moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party has been divided into two parts: one part is for Bala Buni and the other is for Matawalle. This is two years and six months now, we ask them to resolve their differences, and nothing has been done.\u201d<\/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 Zamfara Central Senator, Kabiru Marafa, has dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC. Marafa said he resigned from the APC because the ruling party betrayed its members. Addressing his supporters in a video, the former lawmaker accused the party of dividing its members in Zamfara State. Speaking in Hausa, Marafa said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":176688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[34,3901,254],"class_list":["post-176689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-apc","tag-marafa","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>Marafa Resigns from APC Accuses Party of Betrayal - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Zamfara Central Senator, Kabiru Marafa, has dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC. 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