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Shettima: “No regrets over APC choice of vice-presidential candidate” � Abdullahi Adamu

July 14, 2022July 14, 2022 Aminu Imam

Amidst of reported outcry over the APC choice of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 presidential polls, the party�s National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, says no regrets on the selection of a former Borno State Governor, Ibrahim Kashim Shettima, as vice-presidential candidate. Adamu spoke with reporters in Daura yesterday, where he went to pay a Sallah homage to President Muhammadu Buhari as well as brief the President on preparations for the Osun State gubernatorial elections slated for next Saturday. Adamu described Shettima�s selection as being in tune with dictates of the…

APC Primary: ‘The best doesn�t have to get the prize’, Says National Chairman

June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 Aminu Imam

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has urged the 23 presidential aspirants on the platform of the party to voluntarily submit themselves to the outcome of the election. Addressing the party stakeholders in his welcome address, the APC national chairman said the best among the aspirants does not necessarily have to be the ruling party�s presidential candidate in the next general elections. He said:� The best doesn�t have to get the prize. Some of us have passed through that stage before. Aspirants must be…

APC delegates demand Adamu�s resignation

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 Aminu Imam

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…

APC Crisis: Adamu taking unilateral decisions, blackmailing NWC members � NW/SW Zonal chairmen

June 1, 2022June 1, 2022 Aminu Imam

Two members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have accused the party�s national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, of taking unilateral decisions and using President Muhammadu Buhari�s name to blackmail other members of the Committee. According to an issued press statement in Abuja yesterday, signed by the North-West zonal chairman, Salihu Moh’d Lukman, and the South-West zonal chairman, Isaacs Kekemeke, called on all the leaders of the APC to call Senator Adamu to order before the matter gets out of hand. The statement partly…

2023: Doubts over APC ticket, as Adamu says no decision yet on zoning

April 30, 2022April 30, 2022 Aminu Imam

�Says no regret on costly nomination forms Despite the opening of the sale of nomination forms and aspirants purchasing them, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has said that no decision has been reached on the zone to produce its presidential candidate for the 2023 election, raising new doubts on the zoning position of the party. This comes as the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), led by Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has begun fresh moves to pressure the major political parties to throw their tickets open…

Just In! APC chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, resigns from Senate

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 Aminu Imam

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, has resigned from the Senate. Their resignations were stated in letters read on the floor of the red chamber by Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday. Recall that Adamu was elected as APC national chairman at the convention of the party that was held on March, 26. The current APC Deputy Chairman (North), Abubakar Kyari, also resigned his membership in the upper legislative chamber. Until his resignation he represented Borno-North. Details to follow�

Insecurity: “You don�t take a knife and rip open your belly”, APC Chair to el-Rufa’i, Amaechi

April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 Aminu Imam

The new Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), and a former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has told Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufa�i, and the Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, that he does not know how they were thinking about the security situation in Nigeria, saying it was wrong for one to take a knife and rip open his stomach. Adamu, who spoke in an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, (BBC), asked why he never took offence if people called him a…

Former APC caretaker chairman, Buni, hand over to Senator Adamu

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Aminu Imam

Power formally changed hands yesterday, when the former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Governor Mai Mala Buni, handed the baton of leadership to the newly elected National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu. Buni, governor of Yobe State, was on the saddle for about 21 months until last Saturday. The brief ceremony, which took place at the National Working Committee (NWC) Hall at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja, was witnessed by all the newly elected executive members and Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi…

Alleged Corruption: ‘Adamu others have repented’ – Garba Shehu replies PDP

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 Aminu Imam

The Presidency has slammed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for its latest statement on the emergence of former Nasarawa State governor, Abdullahi Adamu as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Adamu was later charged to court in 2010 by the EFCC, alongside 19 other Nasarawa State officials, with 149 counts of corruption. He was accused of embezzling N15 billion public funds. While his corruption case with the EFCC was still on, Adamu and ten other PDP senators dumped the PDP and joined the APC on January…

“No administration has touched Nigerians’ lives like Buhari�s” – New APC Chairman, Adamu

March 28, 2022March 28, 2022 Aminu Imam

The just-elected National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, says in the history of Nigeria, no other government can match the Buhari administration in terms of touching lives. Adamu said this in his inaugural speech as chairman of Nigeria�s ruling party. �For almost seven years now, APC administrations at the Federal, state and local levels have been battling night and day in order to enhance the livelihood of Nigerians through various policies, programmes and projects. �No administration in the history of Nigeria has performed as much…