Outrage as Yobe APC Chairman Recants 'Divorce Your Husbands for 2027 Vote' Comment

In what has been described as an unprecedented breach of political decorum, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe State, Alhaji Muhammad Gadaka, has found himself at the center of a raging national controversy. Speaking during a highly charged APC rally in the Nangere Local Government Area, Gadaka issued a highly provocative call to female supporters, urging them to divorce their husbands if they refuse to support the ruling party in the upcoming 2027 general elections.

The party chieftain went a step further, declaring that he would personally sponsor the marriage and pay the bride price of any woman who ends her marriage over political differences with her spouse. Speaking in Hausa, Gadaka sought to emphasize the resilience of the APC's political movement in Yobe, claiming that those who remain loyal would eventually reap bountiful leadership rewards. However, his remarks immediately overshadowed the event's political objectives, triggering widespread condemnation across social, cultural, and religious circles in Northern Nigeria.

"The prayers offered 20 years ago were powerful, which is why our movement has not collapsed," Gadaka told the gathered crowd, before dropping the bombshell. "Tell your sister that if her husband does not agree and divorces her, I will pay her bride price and marry her."

The sheer audacity of using the sacred institution of marriage as a political bargaining chip has ignited a fierce debate on the ethical boundaries of political campaigning in Nigeria's conservative northern region.