A section of delegates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) has called on the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
Recall that Adamu had yesterday announced Senate President Ahmad Lawan as the “consensus candidate” ahead of the party’s presidential primary holding today, Tuesday. However, outraged NWC members dismissed the statement as the National Chairman’s personal opinion.
Reacting, many said Adamu’s antics showed that he is working over-zealously for “a small cabal, including a 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”.
According to them, Adamu now constitutes a “clear and present danger to the continued existence of APC as a corporate entity”, capable of subverting Nigeria’s democratic processes.
“By 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,” a delegate from Sokoto State, Mohammed Argungu, said.
According to multiple sources at the NWC meeting, Adamu had defended his position as the outcome of his consultation with President Buhari.
