Adamawa’s political landscape is witnessing a high-stakes power play as Alhaji Sadiq Mohammed Walin Ganye—renowned party financier, grassroots mobiliser, and institutional backbone of the All Progressives Congress—steps firmly into the spotlight, deploying both influence and resources to protect the party he helped build.
Alongside him stands Buba Marwa, another towering pillar of the APC in Adamawa. Together, the duo has emerged as the decisive firewall against the unfolding political intrigue surrounding the reported defection ambitions of Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.
From ward-level mobilisation to sustaining party structures across local governments, Walin Ganye’s fingerprints are unmistakable. Insiders say his personal resources have repeatedly kept the APC machinery oiled—funding meetings, supporting candidates, and galvanising loyalists at moments when resolve mattered most. For the Adamawa APC, this is not theory; it is lived history.
This resistance, party sources insist, is not emotional—it is strategic. Within APC circles, Fintiri’s political past is remembered as a catalogue of opportunism and ruptured alliances. For leaders who invested years—and fortunes—into building a disciplined party architecture, handing the reins to a perceived political drifter is viewed as reckless.
The verdict from the party’s core is now unmistakable and unanimous:
Entry is allowed—takeover is not.
No special lanes. No backroom bargains.
No capture of structures built by loyalty and sacrifice.
If Governor Fintiri seeks membership, sources say, it must be as a follower—subject to the same vetting, discipline, and grassroots validation required of every ordinary member.
Anything short of this, APC stalwarts argue, would reward inconsistency and punish steadfastness—an inversion the Adamawa APC refuses to endorse. As one insider put it: “You may defect, but you will not dominate. You may enter, but you will not hijack.”
Adamawa APC, forged by loyalists and sustained by financiers like Walin Ganye, is drawing a bold red line. It is not a rehabilitation centre for serial political betrayal. It is a party of builders—and it intends to remain so.
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