Report: How APC Chairman, Adamu resigned on the orders of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Senator Abdullahi Adamu was absent as members of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s National Working Committee (NWC) met in Abuja on Monday.

Also, the National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, stormed out of the meeting held at the party secretariat in Abuja.

The APC NWC meeting was presided over by the APC Deputy National Chairman (North), Abubakar Kyari.

The APC NWC meeting and Adamu’s absence come amid his reported resignation and unfolding crisis within the ruling party.

Senator Adamu is said to have resigned along  Omisore. Some sources within the party said if Senator Adamu does not resign, a vote of no confidence would be passed on him and forced out.

Uncertainty yesterday pervaded the All Progressives Congress (APC) following reports of Senator Abdullahi Adamu’s resignation as national chairman of the governing party.

There are indications that Adamu announced his resignation after mounting pressure from party bigwigs that he should do so.

A source within the APC who spoke in confidence on the development last night told LEADERSHIP that the embattled national chairman may have preempted the outcome of the national caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings billed for tomorrow and Wednesday.

“I am not surprised if Adamu has resigned because that is the noble part he should take if he does not want to be disgraced out of office. His refusal to support Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker Abbas during the NASS leadership election sold him out as being anti-party.

“Don’t forget that he also threw his weight behind former Senate president, Ahmed Lawan, instead of President Tinubu during the party’s presidential primary last year. That he has been tolerated all this while shows how magnanimous Tinubu is as a leader,” the source who did not want his name in print told our correspondent.

But an online report had it last night that Adamu resigned purportedly on the orders of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

National secretary of the party, Iyiola Omisore, was also said to have tendered his resignation minutes after.

An online newspaper, Prime Business Africa, reported that it got affirmation from reliable sources within the party and the presidency that Adamu “resigned a few minutes ago on the orders of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”