The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has tendered his resignation, according to credible sources.
Adamu, who emerged as the national chairman at the party’s national convention held in March 2022, sent his resignation letter to the Presidential Villa, Abuja ahead of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s return from the African Union (AU) meeting in Kenya.
Credible sources have confirmed that Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State, sent the resignation letter to the Chief of Staff of the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, around 4pm on Sunday.”
“He resigned because they have started to collate signatures to impeach him during the forthcoming meetings. He resigned to save himself from humiliation,” source close to Adamu revealed.
While a source close to Adamu also confirmed the resignation, they denied reports suggesting that President Tinubu requested Adamu to resign ahead of the National Caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings of the party slated for tomorrow and Wednesday.
The party had initially fixed July 10 and 11 for these meetings to address critical issues affecting the party and the crisis within the National Working Committee (NWC).
Adamu, who was the preferred candidate of former President Muhammadu Buhari for the chairmanship seat, declined to comment further on the matter stating “I won’t talk about the issue because the president is away,”
It would be recalled that Adamu had, shortly before the presidential primaries of the APC, declared former Senate President Ahmad Lawan as the consensus candidate of the party.
This declaration created uproar in the party as governors of the party from the North ganged up against him.
They went to the villa and declared that the presidency be zoned to the South.
The position of the governors forced the party to open the race for its presidential ticket.
Tinubu won the election. Recently, Adamu kicked against the list of the principal officers of the party announced by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas.
Following the development, Adamu was summoned to the villa by President Tinubu.
At the meeting that had the National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, the issue was resolved.
As the APC navigates through these challenging times, the resignation of Adamu as the national chairman adds another layer of complexity to the ongoing internal dynamics within the party.
