Kwara APC Crisis: Mustapha Dumps Party, Carries Tinubu Support Go PDP

Kwara APC Crisis don enter another serious chapter as Senator Saliu Mustapha don formally leave the All Progressives Congress after months of disagreement over the party’s 2027 primary elections and internal leadership. The interesting part be say, even as Mustapha dey move toward PDP, he insist say his support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remain intact—meaning political party fit change, but political loyalty fit still carry same address.

Mustapha Leaves APC After Primary Battle

Senator Saliu Mustapha, wey represent Kwara Central for Senate, announced say he don resign from APC following weeks of consultations with supporters, constituents and stakeholders. His resignation letter dey dated August 14 and was addressed to the APC chairman of Gambari Ward 1, Ilorin East Local Government Area.

The move follow serious disagreement inside the Kwara APC after the May 2026 primaries. Mustapha had contested the governorship ticket but Speaker Yakubu Danladi-Salihu emerged as APC candidate. He also lost the opportunity to return to the Senate as Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq became the party’s preferred candidate for Kwara Central. Earlier, Mustapha and the other two Kwara senators had called for review of the primaries and urgent reconciliation.

Reconciliation Committee Meets Political Traffic

The Kwara APC had established a five-man reconciliation committee after the primary crisis, with the aim of bringing the different camps back together before the 2027 election. But the Kwara APC Crisis continued to grow, with rival groups holding separate political activities and some stakeholders expressing dissatisfaction with the reconciliation process.

The situation become even more complicated when some aggrieved stakeholders refused to participate fully in the reconciliation process, while PDP began opening discussions with members of the APC’s G15 bloc. Reports also indicate that Mustapha’s political movement toward PDP is part of a wider realignment involving the Otoge Progressives, G15 and other aggrieved stakeholders.

The latest development also reportedly involves Kolo Jiya, an APC chieftain from Patigi, who is said to have moved toward PDP. If more influential APC members follow the same road, the Kwara APC Crisis fit become less of an internal quarrel and more of a serious 2027 electoral challenge.

What make the whole matter particularly interesting be Mustapha’s position on President Tinubu. Despite leaving APC and moving toward PDP, he has maintained that he still supports Tinubu’s 2027 ambition. In political mathematics, this one fit look like “party change but principal remain”—the kind calculation wey only Nigerian politics fit produce without calculator.

Mustapha has also argued that his movement should not be seen simply as personal disappointment over losing a ticket, but as part of a broader disagreement over consultation, inclusion and the management of the party in Kwara.

For now, the real test of the Kwara APC Crisis no be only how many politicians go leave APC; na whether the opposition fit successfully convert the current dissatisfaction into a coordinated electoral machine. PDP itself has been working to reconcile its own internal disagreements and strengthen its grassroots structure ahead of 2027, so the party also has its own political homework.

With Mustapha now moving toward the PDP platform and Governor AbdulRazaq positioned on the APC side for Kwara Central, the 2027 contest fit turn into one of the major political battles to watch in the state. The Kwara APC Crisis therefore remains far from settled, and OGM News Pidgin go continue to monitor whether more political luggage go soon leave the APC house.