The Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Special Duties, Hon. Sama’ila Sulaiman, on Saturday formerly dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Mr Sulaiman, who represents Kaduna North federal constituency of Kaduna State, announced his decision in a letter dated March 8th, 2022, and addressed to Kaduna State APC Chairman.
“I write to formally notify you of my decision to resign my membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“My decision became necessary because of the breakdown of internal democracy and fictionalisation of the party at all levels, especially at the national level.” He said.
Suleiman was first elected into the public office as a local government chairman from Kaduna North in Kaduna State under the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2008.
He was the only politician to have won local government election under the CPC having shared the same constituency with the then vice president of Nigeria from the then ruling party People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
In 2015, Suleiman was first elected into the Lower Chamber of the House of Representatives of Nigeria.
He replaced the immediate past Deputy Minority Whip of the House of Representatives, Hon. Garba Mohammed Datti to become the 8th National Assembly’s 2nd Chairman of the House Committee on Solid Minerals after his rejection of the chairmanship of the committee offered to him by the Speaker Yakubu Dogara’s led administration.
Though he’s yet to make official announcement of his new political party, the lawmaker was seen brandishing PDP’s membership card on a post on his verified Facebook page.