The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has opened up on the silence of some presidential aspirants who lost out in the June 8 Special Presidential Convention of the Party.
Adamu said while they remain members of the party, he could not assess the level of their commitment to the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidential project.
Although Tinubu had won the ticket of the party during the convention, however, some of his rivals like Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, and former Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, have not shown public commitment to the partys bid to retain power at the centre.
While Osinbajo was excluded from the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), both Lawan and Amaechi were named as advisers. The development came as Adamu recalled with displeasure the state of affairs of the party when he assumed the reins in March this year.
At a media parley Thursday in Abuja, Adamu defended his decision to reorganise the party bureaucracy, saying he inherited a much disorganised workforce and a secretariat where anything goes and everyone was just doing his own thing.
Party insiders said his comments could be seen as a subtle dig at the defunct Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, (CECPC), which steered the affairs of the party for almost two years before being forced out during a special elective national convention in March. Adamu said he inherited billions of Naira in debts from his predecessor.
On the re-organisation of the partys workforce, Adamu said; The fact of the matter is, go round the secretariat, there is no one person who has come here who is a member of my family primary or secondary.
Recall that Adamu had on April 22 ordered all departmental directors at the Buhari House national secretariat of the party to proceed on indefinite suspension.
On assumption of office on April 1, the party chairman had immediately hinted at the possibility of re-organising the national secretariat while he also embarked on re-modelling the party secretariat, relocating his office from the third to the ground floor. Although he promised to do a staff audit, the report of the exercise, which showed an over-bloated workforce, has not been implemented despite the committee concluding its assignment several weeks ago.
The former Nasarawa State governor had consequently set up a transition committee headed by a former Governor of Jigawa State, Ali Saad Birnin Kudu, to study the handing over notes of the defunct Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and other sundry matters affecting the National Secretariat of the party.
It was based on the committees recommendations that Adamu reportedly decided to suspend the Directors and Head of legal services. It was gathered that the affected directors have now been paid off in controversial circumstances.
