Nigeria, Aug. 29 -- Kabiru Marafa, the Zamfara State Coordinator of Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Organisation in the 2023 presidential election has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Marafa, a former senator who represented Zamfara Central Senatorial District between 2011 and 2019, announced his resignation in a communique issued on Friday by his political base, the Senator Kabiru Marafa Consultative Forum, after a two-day meeting held in Kaduna.

The statement was jointly signed by the Chairman of the group, Bashir Marafa, its secretary, Mannir Tsafe and seven other members. It also announced that the entire Marafa political structure in Zamfara had pulled out of the ruling APC.

One of Mr Marafa's aides, who...