Former Presidential aspirant and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba, has raised the alarm over what he described as growing sycophancy around President Bola Tinubu, warning that those close to the President are painting a false picture of the situation in the country and within the ruling party.
Garba made the statement on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he spoke on the ongoing crisis within the APC, especially in the wake of Abdullahi Ganduje’s controversial resignation as National Chairman.
He didn’t mince words as he described the coalition of opposition figures recently launched on the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as political “vultures” circling to exploit the APC’s internal crisis and capitalize on its current vulnerability.
“They (the ADC coalition) hope for our failure, and that is why we need to be serious,” he said.
According to Garba, the APC must urgently embrace sincerity and self-criticism to survive the wave of political uncertainty. He stressed the need for a new party leadership that is honest, courageous, and ready to listen to hard truths rather than bask in praise-singing.
“There’s a lot of sycophancy around the president,” he warned. “People are telling him that things are okay – things are not okay.”
He noted that the party’s internal cohesion in the North has weakened significantly since the exit of former President Muhammadu Buhari from power and his eventual passing earlier this month.
Garba argued that Buhari’s political influence in the North had already waned before his death, evident in the sharp decline in votes the APC received in the region during the 2023 general elections.
“Buhari left the presidency in 2023, and when you look at the outcome of the 2023 election, the APC had only 5.5 million votes in the North. Where were the 12 million votes?” he asked, referencing Buhari’s consistent northern support base before 2015.
“Now that he’s no more, naturally there’s going to be tension. But what we need now is to re-engineer our strategies again with his absence,” Garba added.
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The oppositions are like vultures; they are just waiting to cash out on the carcass. The more we lose, the more they gain. So they hope for our loss.
— Channels Television (@channelstv) July 22, 2025
– Member of APC, Adamu Garba#PoliticsToday#CTVTweets pic.twitter.com/7rfMrOED5i