Adamawa: Internal squabbles threaten APC ahead bye-election

Ahead of the August bye-election, the All Progressives Congress, APC, faces internal squabbles in four strategic local government areas in the southern part of Adamawa State.

reports that a factional crisis is tearing the party apart in Ganye LGA where the by-election is scheduled for August 2025 and in Toungo, Jada and Mayo-Belwa where unity will also be necessary towards the 2027 general elections.

The reality of two splinter APC groups in the four LGAs is indeed viewed beyond the August by-election in Ganye to the coming 2027 general election season.

The same disunity accounted for loss of the governorship position, as evident in 2019 and then 2023.

Within Ganye, Toungo, Jada and Mayo-Belwa, the APC exists in two groups: one led by Senator Abubakar MoAllahyidi, and another by a prominent traditional title holder, the Walin Ganye, Alhaji Sadiq Wali.

The rival factions held parallel consultative stakeholders’ meetings simultaneously in Ganye on Sunday, June 29, 2025.

The splinter group led by MoAllahyidi, otherwise called the G-20, a group of 20 stakeholders drawn from the four LGAs held its meeting at Poskum Hall in Ganye metropolis, while the one led by Sadiq Wali took place at his personal residence in Ganye.

The G-20 meeting was attended by people who included the immediate past House of Representatives member for the Toungo/Ganye/Jada/Mayo Belwa federal constituency, Abdulrazak Namdas, current and past party exco members and former local government chairmen from the axis, among others.

The one led by the Walin Ganye was attended by Alhaji Mansur Toungo, Mohammad Mayas, Alhaji Umaru Hammajoda Farang, Alhaji Bashir Usman Boro, and party excos from the four LGAs.

Sources said the meeting convened by Wali dwelt on marshalling robust strategies of winning the forthcoming Ganye constituency by-election which was occupied by APC’s Abdulmalik Jauro Musa who died last year, on May 24, 2024.

Abdullahi Jauro’s death made the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to schedule the bye-election for August this year.

With the prevailing disunity in the APC, retaining the seat now looks a near impossibility, prompting many in the party to urge for necessary reconciliation.