APC ducks enquiries over Adamu’s alleged resignation
The All Progressives Congress (APC) have, so far, ducked media enquiries on the alleged resignation of its national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
Adamu’s purported resignation from his position became rife on Sunday. The party is due to convey a meeting of its national executive council —the party’s highest decision-making body soon after President Bola Tinubu’s arrival from the African Union mid-year meeting, holding in Kenya.
The ruling party has seen an uneasy calm in its fold, just as the call for Adamu’s resignation gets louder. The emergence of two Muslims as president and vice president continues to fuel the demand for religious balancing in the sharing of governmental and party offices.
Riliwan Lukman, a critic of the national chairman and vice chairman (north) of APC, had asked Adamu to quit his position and should be replaced with a Christian. Adamu is also being asked to account for billions of naira belonging to the party.
Adamu, a political old fox, who was two-time governor of Nasarawa state and had been involved in Nigerian politics for more than four decades, continue to be in the media spotlight, based on his actions and comments. He had backed the former senate president, Senator Ahmad Lawan for the APC’s presidential ticket during the primaries, held last year. Lawan however lost to Tinubu, who subsequently emerged the president.
Recently, Adamu had rejected the selection of national assembly’s principal officers but dropped his opposition after he met with President Tinubu.
Last week, Adamu told a meeting of APC states’ chairmen that ailing Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu was in a state of “extreme incapacity” but he later claimed to have been quoted off-context.
