Ahead of this week’s meeting of the National Caucus and National Executive Committee NEC, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, tendered his Sunday night, according to sources close to the Party.
Reliable sources confirmed that Adamu, sent his resignation letter to the Presidential Villa, Abuja ahead of the return of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from the African Union (AU) meeting in Kenya.
Accrding to information, Adamu, sent the resignation letter to the Chief of Staff of the President, Femi Gbajabiamila on Sunday.
“He has resigned. The resignation letter signed by him has been sent to the villa. The letter was addressed to President Tinubu. But since the president is away in Kenya for the AU meeting, the letter was sent to his chief of staff,” the source who does not want to be named said.
Source close to Adamu also corroborated the development, adding that, “The national chairman resigned following a gang up by people around the president to embarrass him during the meetings of the party slated for tomorrow and Wednesday.”
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.
The declaration by Adamu 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.
Recall also recently Senator Adamu kicked against the list of the principal officers of the party announced by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas.
Senator Abdullahi Adamu, former governor Nasarawa state emerged as the national chairman at the party’s national convention held in March 2022.
