As a crisis of confidence hits the National Working Committee (NWC) of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) following a failed attempt by the National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, to foist senate president, Senator Ahmed Lawan, on the party as \u201cconsensus candidate\u201d for the primaries scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday), a cross section of delegates arriving Abuja from across the country today are calling for his resignation immediately.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, Adamu controversially announced Lawan as the \u201cconsensus candidate\u201d ahead of the scheduled primaries to the outrage of fellow NWC members who dismissed the statement as \u201cyour personal opinion\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Reacting, many said Adamu\u2019s antics showed that he is working overzealously for \u201ca small cabal including few shadowy but influential figures at the Presidency whose stock in trade is to drop the name of President Buhari, who is a worthy and highly principled leader, in pursuit of their nefarious agenda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n According to them, Adamu now constitutes a \u201cclear and present danger to continued existence of APC as a corporate entity\u201d, capable of subverting Nigeria\u2019s democratic processes.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBy this show of shame, Adamu has clearly shown that he is not fit to preside over APC. It is shameful that a man rehabilitated from political penury in March by President Buhari who made him National Chairman by consensus can now be trying to destroy the same party within three months,\u201d said Mohammed Argugu, a delegate from Sokoto State.<\/span><\/p>\n Another delegate, Ms. Bintu Ibrahim from Niger State, said: \u201cI no longer have confidence in Adamu to continue as APC Chairman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier, the APC\u2019 National Vice Chairman of North-West, Dr. Salihu Lukman, had condemned Adamu\u2019s \u201cautocratic leadership style\u201d by making weighty public statement in the name of APC without consultation with fellow NWC members.<\/span><\/p>\n Also, self-styled \u201cleader of reformed APC\u201d, Alhaji Buba Galadima, has described Adamu as \u201ca political snake\u201d who once stabbed President Buhari in the back in 2003 as governor of Nasarawa State. <\/span><\/p>\n Galadima, now estranged from Buhari, said \u201cIf President Buhari is someone who remembers past evil against, he would not even be shaking hands with Adamu today, much less make him APC Chairman given the very wicked thing he did against Buhari while Buhari was the presidential flagbearer of ANPP and Adamu the sitting governor of Nasarawa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At a meeting of the NWC meeting at the weekend, a source said the National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, had angrily upbraided the chairman \u201cfor treating the rest of us as if we are children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n According to multiple sources at today\u2019s NWC meeting, Adamu had defended his position as the outcome of \u201cmy consultation with President Muhammadu Buhari\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n But impeccable Villa sources denied President Buhari ever anointing Lawan as \u201cconsensus candidate\u201d. It was further gathered that the President was livid when news reached him that Adamu had acted unethically by announcing Lawan in his name.<\/span><\/p>\n Adamu\u2019s lie was further exposed by a declaration by thirteen northerner APC governors reiterating their earlier resolution that power should shift to the South after the tenure of President Buhari next year.<\/span><\/p>\n The northern governors spoke after a closed-door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa today.<\/span><\/p>\n Flanked by other northerner governors inside the Press Gallery of the Villa, Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State said: \u201cMajority of us APC governors from the north have agreed that power should go to the South after President Buhari. This is the position we support.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n El Rufai\u2019s words were echoed by the immediate past Acting National Chairman of the party, Governor Buni of Yobe State, who said \u201cThat is the position of we northern governors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ironically, Lawan who is Adamu\u2019s own \u201cconsensus candidate\u201d hails from Yobe State.<\/span><\/p>\n Culled from The News Online <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a crisis of confidence hits the National Working Committee (NWC) of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) following a failed attempt by the National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, to foist senate president, Senator Ahmed Lawan, on the party as \u201cconsensus candidate\u201d for the primaries scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday), a cross section of delegates arriving Abuja from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5068,5067,5069],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-adamus-resignation","tag-apc-delegates","tag-party-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8680,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions\/8680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}