Crisis rocks APC as delegates demand Adamu’s resignation ahead presidential primaries

The ruling All Progressives Congress has been thrown into leadership crisis following the announcement of the Senate President Ahmed Lawan as the party’s consensus presidential candidate by National Chairman Abdullahi Adamu.

WesternPost had earlier reported that Adamu told other National Working Committee members that after consultation with President Muhammadu Buhari, the senate president was picked as the consensus candidate.

Other members of the NWC however kicked against the move, accusing Adamu of lying in the president’s name.

Adamu’s choice further hit the rocks when northern governors elected on the platform of the party insisted that power must shift to the South after meeting with President Buhari Monday afternoon.

The president also released a statement through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, denying that he had endorsed any candidate.

WesternPost gathered that the present situation has irked delegates of the party who have started arriving in Abuja, with many of them asking that Adamu who just became the party’s national chairman months ago step aside.

According to them, Adamu now constitutes a “clear and present danger to 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,” said Mohammed Argugu, a delegate from Sokoto State.

Another delegate, Ms. Bintu Ibrahim from Niger State, said: “I no longer have confidence in Adamu to continue as APC Chairman.”