Adamu Garba, a senior member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and past presidential candidate, has expressed concern over the widening disparity between the facts on the ground and the stories being provided to President Bola Tinubu by people around him.
Garba, speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, warned that sycophants in power are deceiving Tinubu by painting a false picture of stability in both the country and the ruling party.
“There is a lot of sycophancy around the president,” Garba said. “People are telling him that things are okay – things are not okay.”
The outspoken APC member made the warning in response to rising political tensions and the contentious resignation of former party chairman Abdullahi Ganduje.
He compared the recently formed opposition alliance led by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to “vultures ready to feed on the weakness of the APC.”
“They [ADC coalition] hope for our loss, and that is why we need to be serious,” Garba cautioned. “That is the more reason why we need a leadership that listens to criticisms and accepts facts without flattery or denial.”
Commenting on the current situation of the APC in the north, Garba stated that the party’s fissures got more obvious when former President Muhammadu Buhari left office in 2023 and especially after his death in early July 2025.
He pointed out that Buhari’s record of garnering 12 million bloc votes from the north had already begun to dwindle before his death.
“In 2023, the APC managed only 5.5 million votes in the north. Where were the 12 million votes?” he queried. “Yet we won the election based on structures and strategy. But now, without Buhari, we must re-engineer those strategies to remain relevant.”
