Exactly one week after Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, left the All Progressives Congress (APC), another chieftain of the party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has followed suit.

Datti accused the President Muhammadu Buhari government of incompetence and and corruption.

A senior party member in Kaduna State, he was a member of the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007.

He was also elected a Senator on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011 when he defeated two-time Kaduna Governor, Ahmed Makarfi.

On Thursday, Datti, founder of Baze University, Abuja, submitted a letter to the Chairman of Tudun Wada ward in Zaria Local Government, informing him of his decision to quit the party.

Although he did not give reasons for his decision to leave the party in his letter, he told PREMIUM TIMES in a telephone interview on Friday that “for a party like APC, the shorter the better”.

 “Buhari’s government is incompetent and corrupt,” he said.

“The government is lying. The government of Buhari was established by looted funds and over 80 per cent are from the PDP; his so called fight against corruption is a ruse.”

He said he had returned to the PDP “where 80 per cent of current APC members are from”.

He said the 80 per cent “are the same people who destroyed Nigeria in the last 18 years and they are now in APC”.