The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress,
APC, for North West, Salihu Lukman, has warned against replacing the immediate
past National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, with the ex-Governor of
Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje.
Lukman warned that replacing Adamu with Ganduje would be
suicidal for the ruling party. He spoke against the backdrop of reports that
President Bola Tinubu had backed Ganduje to emerge as the party’s next National
Chairman.
Last weekend, Adamu tendered his resignation, and it was
confirmed by the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, during its meeting on
Monday.
In a statement he signed, Lukman said the choice of Ganduje
would violate the zoning arrangement of the ruling party. He stressed the need
for the North Central to produce APC’s National Chairman after Adamu, adding
that the NWC must sit up and guide the unfolding negotiations.
“Already, part of the speculations emerging from the
Governor’s bloc is that Ganduje is being considered to succeed Senator
Abdullahi Adamu. If this is true, it only suggests insensitivity and taking
members of the party for granted. This is without prejudice to the person of
Ganduje.
“This is because such a choice will completely distort the
zoning arrangement that informed the present configuration of the leadership of
the National Assembly.
“The Speaker of the House of Representatives and Deputy
Senate President coming from North West and North Central shut out of
consideration, to propose the party’s National Chairman move to North West from
North Central will be unjust and almost political suicide,” he said.
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