Ex-Kaduna commissioner dumps APC for ADC

A former Director-Common of the Senator Uba Sani Marketing campaign Council through the 2023 common election, and former Kaduna Info Commissioner, Muhammad Sani Bello, popularly often known as Mainan Zazzau, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress and joined the African Democratic Congress.

Bello introduced his resignation in a letter dated January 7, 2026, addressed to the chairman of the APC in Dogarawa Ward, Kaduna State.

Within the letter, Bello stated, “That is to let you already know of my choice to withdraw my membership of the APC with speedy impact.”

He additionally expressed appreciation to the social gathering for the interval of his membership, stating, “I want to place on file my appreciation for the mutually helpful relationship that we have now shared throughout my membership of the social gathering.”

Bello, an ally of former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, served as Director-Common of Uba Sani’s marketing campaign through the 2023 governorship election and was, till not too long ago, the Commissioner for Info in Kaduna State.

Following his defection, Bello has been appointed a member of the African Democratic Congress Structure Evaluation Committee, because the opposition social gathering intensifies preparations forward of the 2027 common election.

PidomNigeria On-line remembers that Bello had beforehand moved to the APC in 2018 after leaving the Peoples Democratic Party, the place he had been a governorship aspirant in Kaduna State.

On the time, he introduced his choice to hitch the APC at a information convention in Kaduna, explaining that he had consulted extensively with completely different political events earlier than making his selection.

The Information Company of Nigeria reported that Bello had dumped the PDP on November 12, citing what he described as persistent distrust between him and the state management of the social gathering, in addition to its governorship candidate, Isa Ashiru.