Adamu’s Position Threatened As APC Stakeholders Make Plans To Sack Him

Stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) are reportedly mapping out strategies to relieve the embattled National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, of his position.

Naija News understands that some party leaders and members have put out plans to sack the APC chairman at the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting holding at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday.

According to The Sun, Adamu’s latest troubles are being fuelled by some members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC, predominantly drawn from the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and some South West leaders of the party, who are displeased over his failed attempt to frustrate the emergence of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the candidate of the party in June 2022.

Adamu, who was elected last year, barely a few weeks before the presidential primaries of the APC, has since been engrossed in one crisis or the other with some members of party’s National Working Committee (NWC).

Contrary to the expected practice where the NWC of APC zoned the different leadership positions in the National Assembly, Tinubu took charge of the role and openly endorsed those he wanted.

Adamu-led NWC hurriedly released a statement, aligning with the position of the then president-elect.

Again, as soon as Tinubu took over as President, Adamu was reportedly snubbed in the selection of presidential aides and appointment of members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

The last straw was the appointment of principal officers of both chambers of the National Assembly, which is the established responsibility of NWC of the political parties.

Sources informed the aforementioned publication that Adamu’s meeting with President Tinubu on Wednesday, where he had reportedly gone to solicit understanding, might not have gone according to plan.

Instead, some members of APC NWC have reportedly moved against the chairman and asking for his ouster.

Sources also said that Tinubu might not have taken a position on Adamu’s issue, though his allies are mounting pressure on the president to take charge of the party, ahead of key governorship elections coming up later in the year.