Gombe Permanent Secretary picks APC membership card ahead 2027 election

By Najib Sani, Gombe 

A recently retired Permanent Secretary in Gombe State Abubakar Adamu has picked membership card of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2027 elections. 

He picked the card in his Dukku Local Government area at an event attended by mammoth crowd of heavy weight politicians, groups and associations as well as friends and family over the weekend. 

Our correspondent reports that the permanent secretary was received into the party by the state APC deputy chairman, Baba Abuja.

The permanent secretary who retired just last month after serving 35 meritorious years in the civil service said he decided to join politics and APC to help the state governor Inuwa Yahaya in moving the state forward.

"I made up my mind to join politics on 1st September, 2025 under the ruling All Progressive Congress as a way of contributing my part in the development of my local government area and the state at large.

"The unprecedented developments brought to Dukku local government are visible enough to support the policies and programmes of the Inuwa Yahaya led administration in the state and I assure you of my loyalty to the party at all time for its success in the subsequent elections", he stated.

Earlier, the state deputy chairman of the party, Nitte Amangal, urged both the local government and state leadership of the party to accord the retired permanent secretary equal priority to tap from his wealth of experience for the development of the party in the state.

In their comments, the executive chairman Dukku Local Government and the APC chairman Dukku Local Government, Adamu Muhammed Waziri, and Shehu Saadu, described the retired permanent secretary as committed and always concerned on the development of his communities which they said are the qualities of progressive members of the party.

A member of Gombe State House of Assembly representing Dukku North, Honourable Nasiru Abdulkarim, said the decision taken by the retired permanent secretary was apt and would assist significantly in ensuring success of the party at different levels.