{"id":22593,"date":"2025-03-10T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T09:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22593"},"modified":"2025-03-10T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T09:27:34","slug":"el-rufai-dumps-apc-joins-sdp-after-meeting-aregbesola-tunde-bakare-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22593","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai Dumps APC, Joins SDP After Meeting Aregbesola, Tunde Bakare in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In a stunning political move, former Kaduna State governor <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> has officially <\/span><span class=\"s1\">resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> and <\/span><span class=\"s1\">joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP)<\/span><span class=\"s2\">after citing <\/span><span class=\"s1\">irreconcilable differences<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> with the party\u2019s leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">El-Rufai, a <\/span><span class=\"s1\">founding member of the APC<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, submitted his resignation letter to his ward in Kaduna on Monday, expressing disappointment over the party\u2019s deviation from democratic principles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI have diligently served the APC and contributed to its viability, but recent developments show a troubling disregard for the progressive values I hold dear,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He emphasized his key role in securing APC\u2019s victories in <\/span><span class=\"s1\">2015, 2019, and 2023<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, but noted that his political journey now requires a new platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">El-Rufai\u2019s switch to the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">SDP<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> comes after <\/span><span class=\"s1\">high-profile meetings in Lagos<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> with former Interior Minister <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Rauf Aregbesola<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> and influential cleric <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Pastor Tunde Bakare<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, sparking speculations about a broader political realignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cAs a member of the SDP, I am committed to building a strong alternative to challenge the APC in the upcoming elections,\u201d he declared, urging like-minded Nigerians to join him in reshaping the country\u2019s future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning political move, former Kaduna State governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has officially resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP)after citing irreconcilable differences with the party\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,15,4066,1079,5234],"class_list":["post-22593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-aregbesola","tag-el-rufai","tag-sdp","tag-tunde-bakare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22596,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions\/22596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}