{"id":94350,"date":"2025-07-07T21:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=94350"},"modified":"2025-07-07T21:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:16:25","slug":"ex-sgf-babachir-lawal-formally-quits-apc-as-fear-of-implosion-hits-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=94350","title":{"rendered":"Ex-SGF, Babachir Lawal, formally quits APC as fear of implosion hits party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid growing fears of implosion in the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), a chieftain of the party and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Dr Babachir David Lawal, has formally bowed out of the party.<\/p>\n<p>However, contrary to speculation, the renowned technocrat and politician said he has not aligned with any political party yet.<\/p>\n<p>Babachir Lawal resigned from APC in a letter to the Chairman of Bangshika Ward of Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cLetter of Resignation from the APC\u201d, the politician did not adduce any reason for his current action, though he has had a running battle with President Bola Tinubu over the choice of Muslim- Muslim ticket in the pre-2023 presidential election process.<\/p>\n<p>The letter read in part \u201cMy Chairman Sir, I write to formally notify you of my resignation from the All Progressives Congress APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn due course, I will make public my current political affiliations where I plan to join other compatriots to work towards making Nigeria, a better living place for all citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis resignation takes immediate effect. Please, remain blessed and extend my warm regards to other members of your party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>With Babachir Lawal\u2019s exit, fears of implosion have become high in the ruling APC on the fate that may befall it before the 2027 general elections due to growing ill feelings among the members, especially in the Northern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that a coalition headed by a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar had recently adopted the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as a platform for the opposition to wrestle power from the ruling party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid growing fears of implosion in the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), a chieftain of the party and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Dr Babachir David Lawal, has formally bowed out of the party. However, contrary to speculation, the renowned technocrat and politician said he has not aligned with any political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":94352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}