A former commissioner of women affairs and social development in Kaduna State, Hafsat Mohammed Baba, has announced her resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
She made this known in a letter addressed to the party chairman, enclosed with her membership slip.
In the letter, she said, “The chairman may note that I came into the negotiations to form the APC as the incumbent, and hence, legacy National Woman Leader of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria. We joined the merger in order to entrench democratic order and justice to the political space in the country which was in dire need of a new political and governing direction.”
The former commissioner accused the APC of losing its sense of direction and purpose, adding that the party has deviated from its founding principles of justice, peace and unity.
“As an ardent proponent and follower of these principles, continued association with the party as it is currently constituted is against my personal principles (Aqida).
“Further actions and political decisions will follow as myself and like-minds deem appropriate and as may keep us on our founding and still extant principles of Justice and Political order,” she said.
Baba, however, failed to state which party she would pitch her tent with.
Her resignation from the APC followed defection of her former boss, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, from the APC to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
