{"id":199735,"date":"2026-04-27T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:48:08","slug":"adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives","title":{"rendered":"ADC holds congress in Zamfara, elects new state executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Zamfara State has elected new executive members, with Alhaji Kabiru Garba emerging as state chairman following a consensus-based congress held on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The peaceful state congress produced a new leadership team comprising Kabiru Aliyu Bakura as Vice Chairman, Sanusi Falalu as Secretary, Abdullahi Dahiru as Auditor, Ganiya Sani as Women Leader, and Abdulkarim Umar as Publicity Secretary, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise was attended by delegates from all 14 local government areas of the state and supervised by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.<\/p>\n<p>In his acceptance speech, the new chairman, Kabiru Garba, pledged to reposition the party and strengthen its structure ahead of the 2027 general elections, expressing confidence in ADC\u2019s prospects in Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<p>He promised inclusive leadership and stronger grassroots mobilisation, stressing that the party would address past shortcomings and reposition itself for electoral success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe ADC is equal to the task; we would reposition all that went wrong as a result of bad leadership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Garba further assured supporters that the party would work towards securing victory in the 2027 elections in the state.<\/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. The African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Zamfara State has elected new executive members, with Alhaji Kabiru Garba emerging as state chairman following a consensus-based congress held on Monday. The peaceful state congress produced a new leadership team comprising Kabiru Aliyu Bakura as Vice Chairman, Sanusi Falalu as Secretary, Abdullahi Dahiru as Auditor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":199733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-199735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>ADC holds congress in Zamfara, elects new state executives - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Zamfara State has elected new executive members, with Alhaji Kabiru Garba emerg ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ADC holds congress in Zamfara, elects new state executives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Zamfara State has elected new executive members, with Alhaji Kabiru Garba emerg ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-27T19:42:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-27T20:48:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/sm_1777322848.820809.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ADC holds congress in Zamfara, elects new state executives\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-27T19:42:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-27T20:48:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives\"},\"wordCount\":206,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/sm_1777322848.820809.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-holds-congress-in-zamfara-elects-new-state-executives\",\"name\":\"ADC holds congress in Zamfara, elects new state executives - 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