Following his alleged resignation as National Chairman of
his ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has now
broken his silence on the matter.
Vanguard had reported that ahead of this week’s meeting of
the National Caucus and National Executive Committee NEC of the APC, there is a
gang up of opposition against Senator Adamu and National Secretary of the
party, Senator Iyiola Omisore.
It was gathered that some bigwigs of the party had been
going about with a list of alleged “sins” committed by Adamu against Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu weeks before the latter declared his interest to vie for the
presidency last year.
“Consequently, there are some forces within the party who
are likely to meet with Adamu on Sunday night or early Monday to pressure him
into resigning rather than been shown the exit door” said a party official
privy to the internal workings of the party.
He said the NEC meeting slated for Tuesday is likely to
approve a timetable for a midterm elective convention to fill party vacancies.
“As you know, many of the new state governors have not made
all their appointments. Even at that, some party officials have been appointed
into government.
“At the national level, it is very likely that some national
officers or members of the National Working Committee NWC would be appointed
into government. Once that is done, there will be vacancies which would be
filled through the convention. The convention could also provide a window to
get Adamu out”, said the party source.
According to him, the move to oust Adamu would also see
Omisore being eased out of the equation as some aggrieved members of the NWC
have consistently accused him of running the party alone with Adamu.
He said the controversial audit report of the party would be
part of the issues to use against Adamu.
“Under our constitution, only the NEC of the party can
appoint an external auditor to audit the accounts of the party but Adamu, after
being forced to render financial accounts, decided to enlist his own auditor,
bypassing NEC. He thereafter presented the report of his auditors to the NWC
for ratification. The party has an auditor. Adamu should simply have allowed
him to do his job and present his report to the NWC. After that, the NWC will
go through the report of the National Auditor, deliberate on it and present to
NEC, which has the powers to appoint an external auditor to go through our
accounts. But this has not been the case”, the source added.
Indeed, there were speculations on Sunday night that Adamu
had “resigned in principle” even before the said meeting.
While he did not respond to messages seeking his
confirmation of the report, party spokesman, Felix Morka also went mute on the
issue.
‘We can’t comment in what we don’t know’
An NWC member said they, like other party men and women,
were also shocked by the report of Adamu’s resignation and that they cannot
comment on what they have no knowledge of.
“As expected, the NWC is supposed to meet on Monday ahead of
Tuesday’s Caucus meeting and Wednesday’s NEC meeting. Adamu hasn’t told us
anything about his resignation or otherwise”.
Contacted by Daily Trust, Adamu declined comments pending
the return of President Bola Tinubu from the African Union AU meeting in Kenya.
“I won’t talk about the issue because the president is
away,” Adamu said.
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