24 Hours After Adamu’s Ouster, Tinubu Shops for New APC Chairman
POLITICS DIGEST – Following the resignation of Senator Abdullahi Adamu as National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, indications emerged yesterday, that President Bola Tinubu is “actively shopping” for his replacement.
Politics Digest reliably gathered that some of the president’s men were said to have been looking for a suitable replacement for Adamu, shortly after Tinubu was elected in February this year.
While Tinubu was said to have soft-pedaled shortly after he was sworn in, preferring instead to take his time before trying to oust Adamu, some chieftains of the party were said to have impressed it on the former governor of Osun State and Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, to secure the president’s nod to remove Adamu instantly.
The development came on a day when all the bank accounts of the ruling party had been frozen. Vanguard gathered that the accounts were frozen on the orders of the “Presidency”, days before the embattled chairman was shown the exit. The development has consequently affected the payment of advertisement debts accruing to various media houses covering the
Some party sources said the president already has a replacement for Adamu but was consulting some stakeholders in order to make his choice acceptable to all.
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“Honestly, if you ask me, I do not know who the person is. You are the one asking me about (James) Faleke and (Tanko) Almakura now. Some are even saying Silas Agara, a former deputy governor of Nasarawa state, but the president is keeping things to his chest and his inner circle, and that is not unexpected. I do not know the people being touted as replacements but I know the president is talking with his inner caucus”, said a top party official.
Another official of the party, who pleaded anonymity, however, said Almakura and the immediate-past Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong are among the two being tipped for the position.
‘’I do not know the people being touted as replacements but I know the president is talking with his inner caucus,”,said a top party official.
Acting National Chairman of the party, Senator Abubakar Kyari, who spoke with journalists after the National Working Committee, NWC, meeting, said APC constitution envisaged a situation like this and had made provisions for filling all vacancies. He said all the vacancies in the NWC, including Adamu’s now-vacant seat, would soon be filled.
Kyari said: “There are procedures for filling the vacancies and I think the procedures, we will kick start that very soon.”
He added that meetings of the National Caucus and the National Executive Committee NEC earlier scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, have now been postponed.
He said: “The NWC wishes to inform you of the resignation of the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and that of the National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore.
“With these recent developments in the change of leadership, I will like to inform everybody here that the proposed National Caucus meeting slated for Tuesday, the 18th of July 2023 and the National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, slated for July 19, 2023, is hereby postponed and this postponement will not be indefinite but a new date will be communicated shortly.”
