By Onimisi Alao, Yola

Prominent Adamawa-born politician and former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has joined merger talks between his All Progressives Congress (APC) and African Democratic Congress (ADC).

He said APC has had enough of disunity playing out in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State.

Ribadu, who contested the APC governorship ticket in Adamawa State last year, recalled that conflict resulting from the APC governorship primary had weakened the APC, causing its loss in last year’s governorship seat to the then opposition PDP.

Ribadu, who recalled that the ADC backbone in the state, Senator Abdulazeez Nyako, was the ADC governorship candidate and polled enough votes in that election to have made a winning difference for the APC if he had not left to be the ADC candidate, said collapsing of the ADC into the APC would ensure the return of APC to power in the state in 2023.

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“Enough is enough of politicians feeding fat on internal wrangling in the APC in Adamawa State,” Ribadu said yesterday when he visited the state secretariat of the ADC in Yola where he met with officials of the party.

He said much of the problem in APC towards and during the 2019 election was fuelled by people outside the party.

Ribadu stressed that ADC members have every reason to regard APC as their own since they were APC faithful before conflict in APC made them defect to the ADC.

He urged them to be positively inclined towards ongoing talks to fuse the ADC into APC.

Nyako thanked Ribadu for identifying with the merger talks.

He enjoined him to add his voice to need for the APC to ensure fairness for members, to avoid what he described as the unfair treatment that made him leave the party for the ADC towards the 2019 election.

Nyako told Ribadu that the ADC would do its consultation among stakeholders before declaring its stand on the merger talks.