APC National Chairman Adamu Abdullahi is the target of increased efforts to have him removed just six months after taking office.
Over the weekend, there were hints that some players were planning to remove Senator Abdullahi Adamu in order to placate the APC Christian bloc, which was upset over the ruling party’s choice to run a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
APC senior who spoke to Newsmen claimed that a Christian National Chairman could appease voters who were displeased with the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
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“Yes, there are those who feel that the controversy generated by our Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket can be lessened by having a Christian chairman and also proposing a Christian Chief of Staff to the President. Some have proposed a federal lawmaker, James Faleke, for that position, that is, Chief of Staff,” the party leader said.
“There are issues regarding the continued stay of Adamu as party chair. The first is that we need to placate the Christian community.
“Second, a lot of us expected from Adamu in an election season, but he hasn’t done much. We need the bureaucracy of the party to be alive this period, but their salaries are not even forthcoming, and you expect them to work efficiently? That is one thing that might count against the chairman.
“Also, he was Chairman of the APC National Reconciliation Committee before he became the national chairman of the party. We expected that by now, he would have been able to resolve the major differences, but that has not happened.
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“The leader of our party, President Muhammadu Buhari, also urged us to refund the money paid by aspirants at the convention which produced Adamu as national chairman. Aspirants paid millions, yet we haven’t refunded them. These are some of the issues.”
Another source claimed that the National Chairman disobeyed the president’s order to reimburse candidates’ nomination expenses.
Remember that at the March 26 National Convention, President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered the party to reimburse the nomination fees to every candidate who resigned in favor of the party’s consensus plan.
Adamu-led NWC is also accused of failing to pay staff salaries as scheduled for the last two months.
“The June salary was paid in the middle of July while the staff only received their July pay last Friday as against payment on the 25th of every month,” the source said.
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“It would be recalled that in a move to perfect a consensus arrangement ahead of the party’s March 27 National Convention, President Buhari, at a meeting on March 23 with eight national chairmanship aspirants at the Villa, persuaded them to step down for a consensus candidate with a promise of a refund of their nomination fee.”
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