Thursday, 27 May 2021: Buba Galadima, a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, has denied his affiliation with any of Nigeria’s two dominant political parties.

Galadima, at a webinar tagged “Intra-Party Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Solution,” said he has ceased being a member of either the All Progressives Congress, (APC), or the country’s main opposition, People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

At the webinar organised by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, (PTCIJ), he introduced himself as the National Chairman of the breakaway of the APC called Reformed All Progressives Congress, (rAPC) adding that ”the rAPC is coming back to take Nigeria’s political space by storm”.

“I want to make the biggest correction, I am not, I am not a member of the PDP. I am not. I am the national chairman of the breakaway rAPC and I remain so,” Galadima clarified.

“I want the nation to know that very soon, Nigeria will hear from us in the political environment with a big bang.”

The rAPC broke away at the peak of the crisis which rocked the APC in 2018, accusing Mr Buhari-led government of underperformance and inability to live up to its promises for good governance three years after winning the first election.

The voracious Galadima, a former National Secretary of defunct Congress for Progressive Change, (CPC), was one of the signatories to the merger that birthed the APC.

In his contribution as one of the four panelists at the Wednesday webinar designed to interrogate Nigeria’s intra-party democracy since 1999, Buhari’s former ally now a foe said the country’s politicians, himself inclusive, had failed to learn lessons on the subject.

He, alongside three other panelists, agreed that Nigeria’s intra-party democracy “remains crawling as money politics and candidate imposition had continued to rule political parties rather than true democratic tenets”.