A former Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Arc Aminu Dabo, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with immediate effect.

Dabo, who served as the APC caucus chairman in Dambatta Local Government Area of Kano State, announced his resignation in a letter dated October 7, 2026, addressed to the party chairman of Dambatta Gabas Ward.

In the letter, Dabo said his decision followed careful consideration of personal reasons and his future endeavours.

He confirmed that he had formally submitted his resignation to the appropriate party officials in Dambatta for necessary action.

The former NPA managing director expressed appreciation to the APC leadership for the opportunity to serve, as well as the support and confidence reposed in him.

“I remain grateful for the cordial relationship I enjoyed and appreciative of the experience gained during my time of service,” he said.

He also thanked the party leadership for allowing him to contribute to its development and progress.

Dabo was a governorship aspirant in Kano State and previously served as the state’s Commissioner for Land.

He is also the proprietor and chief executive officer of Aminu Dabo College of Health Sciences and Technology and Aminu Dabo College of Nursing Sciences, both located in Kano.

Unknown thugs have reportedly attacked the secretariat of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.

The attack, which was reported on Wednesday, comes barely one week after NDC supporters were attacked in Enugu, resulting in the death of one person.

No casualties was reported in the Edo attack, but footage of the incident showed that properties at the secretariat were damaged.

Report says the incident marks the latest in a series of violent disruptions targeting opposition political infrastructure across the state.

There are growing concerns over political intolerance and targeted intimidation ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Civil society groups and political analysts have expressed alarm over the recurring attacks on party secretariats, warning that unchecked political violence threatens the credibility of the democratic process.

Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Pesidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, has disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will kick start his re election campaign in Kaduna on October 24.

Yari disclosed this after a visit to President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday evening.

The former Governor of Zamfara State also declared that the Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC Atiku Abubakar, and that of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (ADC), Peter Obi, do not have the numbers to defeat Tinubu in 2027.

While boasting that President Tinubu controls at least “Conservatively” ten states in the North and ten states in the south, Yari said the same could not be said of Atiku and Obi.

He said while Atiku does not control any state in the south, Obi does not control any one in the North.

He said, “The President asked for me to come and brief him on where we are, and to discuss the timetable for the state visits. And by God’s grace, his team, I, and Mr President himself, we have agreed on how it’s going to be done. We have put forward a proposal.”

“The inaugural meeting is going to be done on the 14th of this month. That’s next Wednesday at the State House banquet hall, and by God’s grace, on the 24th of October, we’re going to do our flag off campaign in Kaduna, and then we outlined our state visits to each and every place where we will go, and then President has approved them.

“So we are going to hit the ground running by the 24th of October in Kaduna.”

Yari said after Kaduna, the Presidential team will be heading for Port Harcourt.

“From there we will be in Maiduguri. We have the timetable, and we’re going to make it available after the inauguration. But these have all been understood and approved by the team of Mr President and I.”

The DG campaign further said God has used President Tinubu to assist Atiku and Obi, before, adding that God will not use them to bring him down.

“We are talking of the president of the country, and this president, who, by God’ grace, Almighty God used him to support Atiku some time back, and the same time to support Peter Obi.

“So if Allah uses me to support you, there is no how Allah will use you to bring me down. I mean, they cannot bring him down. Let me give you one scenario. If you don’t know, can you say that the ADC candidate today in the southern part of the country, can he can beat his chest and say he has control one state in the south?

“I don’t think Peter Obi who use to be my colleague, can beat his chest. Can he say he has a state, control one in the north? So this calculation shows us that even if you have control of 80% of the south, if you don’t have anything in the north, you cannot make it. If you have 80% of control of the north, if you don’t have any state in the south, you can’t make it, and that’s what it is.

“Look at Buhari of blessed memory. He had control of over 70% at that time, over 11 states in the North and had no any control of one in the south. He couldn’t make it all the way. And today, I’m sure Asiwaju has control of in the conservative estimate, more than 10 states in the south, and I believe he has control of more than 10 states in the north.

“This is calculation, it is not rocket science. President Bola Tinubu, since the time he assumed office has turn around the situation that he met on ground, still the economy is moving. So I think we have done enough that we can tell our opponents about what we did.

“We are not promising. We are doing it, and we are going to continue.”