NDC Deputy National Publicity Secretary Dumps Party, Gives Strong Reason

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Abdulmumin Abdulsalami, has resigned from the party, citing alleged injustice, exclusion, and interference by influential party officials.

Abdulsalami conveyed his resignation in a formal letter addressed to the NDC National Chairman, Senator Moses Cleopas, routed through his former ward chairman in Nagazi Ward, Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State.

In the letter titled, ‘Letter of Resignation from the Nigeria Democratic Congress: Withdrawal from All Partisan Commitments to the Party’, he explained that his decision followed the realization that his efforts within the party conflicted with the interests of a few powerful individuals.

‘As a foundation member of the NDC, ditto a critical formative leader in the party, I am compelled to voluntarily take the exit having realised that my sincere and positive contributions to the meteoric rise and success of the party are at odds with the vested interests of a few powerful officers who call the shots,’ Abdulsalami wrote.

‘More so, this painstaking decision serves my best interest as I prioritise my peace of mind rather than recurrent complaints at the sight of a series of injustices meted out to me,’ he added.

Before his resignation, Abdulsalami served as the NDC Protem Chairman in Kogi State, later rising to become Deputy National Publicity Secretary and Deputy National Director for Labour and Civil Society.

In his resignation letter, he expressed gratitude to the party’s National Leader, Senator Seriake Dickson, for the opportunities afforded him, while acknowledging the support of colleagues, civil society activists, and media practitioners who worked alongside him during the party’s formative period.

Abdulsalami’s exit comes amid ongoing friction over structural control within the NDC following the arrival of its 2027 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who formally joined the party on May 3, 2026, after leaving the African Democratic Congress.

While National Chairman Cleopas Moses had maintained in June that the NDC already possessed established structures across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory prior to their defection, friction recently emerged between the party leadership and the Obi-Kwankwaso Movement (OK Movement).

The movement’s Director-General, John Ughulu, refused to collapse its structures into the party, prompting Senator Seriake Dickson to describe the group’s decision to set up a parallel presidential campaign council as ‘unheard of’ and ‘nonsensical’.

The exit also coincides with broader realignments around Obi’s political circle, following Wednesday’s unveiling of his former Political Adviser for Northern Nigeria and ex-National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, as the National Coordinator of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Presidential Campaign Council—a move that followed his October 30 resignation from Obi’s team, as well as the earlier departure of former loyalist Nana Kazaure to Atiku Abubakar’s campaign camp.