The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC,
Senator Abdullahi Adamu said the party is willing to receive the former Rivers
state Governor Nyesom Wike-led G-5 into its fold.
Adamu disclosed this while speaking in an interview with
Arise Television on Tuesday.
The APC chairman noted that the G-5 will be most welcome
whenever they decide to opt for the ruling party.
Meanwhile, Adamu has rubbished the rumoured differences
between himself and President Bola Tinubu.
Adamu said he deserved some commendation for leading the
party towards a successful presidential primaries and the eventuual victory of
Tinubu.
He said he was misrepresented about his position on the recently
elected principal officers of the national assembly, adding that what the APC
had issues with was the manner the communication was handled by the lawmakers.
Adamu said those who have issues against him have always had
the opportunity to air their views at their national meetings, explaining that
Saliu Lukman, for instance, who has always accused him of running a one-man
show, has always attended those meetings.
The APC chairman stated that the decision of Lukman to take
the party to court was a grave offence even though he later signed a deal that
his case had been withdrawn from the court and apologising for his
misdemeanour.
Adamu said, “I think that’s a soft selling point for you
media people. It is true that at the time that I made a presentation to the
National Working Committee (NWC), the name of Senator Ahmed Lawan was thrown
up.
“That was before the convention. So many things took place
between then and the actual date of the convention and you saw what culminated
in the convention unanimously. I was there and I led the convention of the
party.
“A day after the
convention, I took the entire working committee to his (Tinubu’s) house in
Asokoro and assured him of our support and said we will stand shoulder to
shoulder with him and ensure that the mandate was sold properly to the people
of Nigeria. We won the election. Instead of being praised, we are vilified,” he
said.
He stated that it wasn’t the time for vilification,
expressing the view that since he led the party to success, he should be
commended.
Adamu said he had a right to hold an opinion like he did on
Lawan before the primaries, but noted that once it was clear that Tinubu
emerged, every member had to rally around him.
He said he currently has a good working relationship with
Tinubu since his election, noting that the president has always given him his
full attention each time they met.
Adamu said he would be willing to disagree with the
president on any matter because there’s freedom of speech in the country,
explaining that the so-called altercation with the president remains media
creation.
The national APC chairman stressed that reports about
himself and the president not on the same page remain speculative, urging the
media to be fair to him.
On his comments which were reported about the Ondo governor
that the governor, Rotimi Akeredolu was extremely incapacitated, Adamu stressed
that there was no such pronouncement at his meeting with state chairmen.
The chairman further said the future of the APC remains very
bright, explaining that his hope was that in the next four years, Tinubu will
get renewal for a second term.
He noted that he wasn’t bothered by media reports of
differences with the president, pointing out that his main task at the moment
is to keep the party as one strong entity.
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