Nasarawa: Ex-Governorship Candidate Umbugadu Dumps APC Weeks After Defection, Returns To PDP
A former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State, Dr. David Umbugadu, has resigned from All Progressives Congress (APC), barely three weeks after joining the ruling party
Umbugadu who contested the governorship election in the state in 2019 and 2023, confirmed his his resignation in a letter dated March 24, 2026 and addressed to the APC chairman of Ike/Wangibi Ward in Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area.
In the letter, he cited concerns over alleged political manoeuvres that could affect his chances in the 2027 governorship election, as the reason for his decision to leave the party. He said he would be returning to PDP which he described as his political home and base.
Umbugadu had formerly joined the APC on March 2, 2026 and was formally received at the Government House in Lafia by Governor Abdullahi Sule, former governors Abdullahi Adamu and Umaru Tanko Al-makura, as well as other top political figures in the state.
The politician initially joined the PDP in 2014 after defection from the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and remained with the party as one of its key member ever since until his brief stint in the APC.