By OUR REPORTER, Abuja
“Although Adamu denied having having rift of any kind with the new Presidency of the country, his resignation was said to be in Tinubu’s bid to take full control of the party unlike President Muhammadu Buhari’s era of separation of powers between executive, legislature, judiciary and party supremacy.”
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has confirmed report in circulation about resignation of Senator Abdullahi Adamu from office as National Chairman of the ruling party.
In the same vein, the APC National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omiosore, also resigned and has this ceased to be the chief scribe of party.
Confirming this to The DEFENDER in a telephone interview on Monday was the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Felix Morka, who said the new Acting National Chairman and Acting Secretary of the party had already emerge.
The news about Adamu’s resignation broke out on Sunday with a rider that Omosore might follow suit.
Speaking to The DEFENDER, Mr. Morka said, “They have both resigned and there is an Acting National Chairman in the person of Senator Abubakar Kyari, and Acting National Secretary, Barrister Festus Fuanter. The Acting National Chairman has given a press statement abd the news is everywhere now.”
This Nigeria’s fast growing only multilingual newspaper gathered that Adamu had been facing many battles since the party won the February 25, 2023 presidential election, the outcome of which is now being vehemently contested by major opposition parties and their candidates namely Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A media source recalled that some influential members of the party had been calling for the resignation of Adamu and Omisore, which per adventure was why Adamu once reacted saying he supported Senator Ahmed Lawan as APC Presidrntial Candidate but that he won the presidential election for Bola Tinubu.
Although Adamu denied having having rift of any kind with the new Presidency of the country, his resignation was said to be in Tinubu’s bid to take full control of the party unlike President Muhammadu Buhari’s era of separation of powers between executive, legislature, judiciary and party supremacy.
Impeccable sources within the ruling party and the Presidency, who would not want to be named, according Prime Business Africa, had Sunday night of July 16, 2023 confirmed to that Adamu “resigned a few minutes ago on the orders of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
The embattled former chairman had fixed a National Working Committee (NWC) meeting for Monday July 17 preparatory to the Caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings of July 18 and 19, respectively.
What becomes of the meeting originally planned for Monday (today) has now become a matter of conjecture, according to the media source.
Recall that the APC had scheduled the same NWC, Caucus and NEC meetings for last week but had to move it to July 17, 18 and 19 owing to internal disagreements and intra-party politics.
It was gathered on good authority that the NWC and Mr President did not have an agenda for the meetings, the reason they were postponed, no thanks allegedly to the national Chairman, Senator Adamu.
It was also gathered authoritatively that all members of the NWC “are on the same page” regarding the compulsory resignation of the National Chairman and his Secretary, Omisore.
The NWC members are also said to be miffed by alleged lack of transparency in the party’s 2022 Account audit, which they said was “surreptitiously secured and submitted without any of the members sighting it.”
Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, was said to have secured Adamu’s resignation. “In fact, he tendered his resignation letter to the Imo State Governor,” a source who is familiar with the events reportedly said.
It was gathered that President Tinubu specifically “mandated” Governor Uzodinma to manage the processes to fill the vacuum created by the exit of the party Chairman.
