An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Adamu Garba, has claimed that the resignation of Abdullahi Ganduje as national chairman of the APC has exposed the party to attacks from a coalition of opposition elements under the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

He lamented that the coalition is made of vultures trying to exploit the ruling party’s internal challenges.

The politician spoke on Tuesday during his appearance on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today. ‘

Speaking further, he stated that sycophants around President Bola Tinubu are misleading him about the state of the country and the party.

He said, “They (ADC coalition) hope for our loss, and that is why we need to be serious.

“That is the more reason why we need to be very sincere with ourselves and make sure that the leadership of the party is somebody that is truthful and capable of listening to criticisms and accepting the facts without any flattery, without any sycophancy, because I believe there are a lot of sycophants around the president; people are telling him that things are okay, things are not okay.”

Garba said APC’s popularity in the north started dwindling after the late former President Muhammadu Buhari left office in 2023.

“Naturally, there is going to be this kind of tension,” he said.

“Buhari left the presidency in 2023, and when you look at the outcome of the 2023 elections, the APC had only 5.5 million votes in the north. Where were the 12 million votes?

“But yet we won the election based on the system that was established, the structures in place, and the strategies deployed.

“What we need now is to re-engineer our strategies again now with his absence,” he added.