Muiz Banire, SAN, a former All Progressives Congress (APC) legal adviser, stated on Monday that colleagues of the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, may have pushed their departure.
Banire spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, just hours after Senator Abubakar Kyari was named acting APC National Chairman and Adamu and Omisore resigned as party national officers.
According to the former party’s legal counsel, the duo’s resignation may have been forced, adding that it was an unusual situation that must have been spawned by certain circumstances that are not apparent to people now, but believes that the National Working Committee and the National Executive Council are well aware of everything that occurred before the sudden resignation.
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“I have been reading Mr Lukman Saliu for some time; he has been raising a lot of issues, particularly bordering on maladministration of the party, misappropriation funds and so on.
“Well, that could be part of it because I know as a matter of fact, in NWC sometimes those are usually issues that usually confronts or challenges the body.
“So, it’s not unlikely that it is as a result of such issues that have been in the public space for some time now; maybe it has reached its peak now and couldn’t be absorbed again. They probably reacted.
“I’m not too sure that the resignation could have been voluntarily, in my view, I might be wrong; I probably believe that maybe the pressure of other colleagues of theirs forced them eventually to tender their resignation,” Banire said.
Banire, who served as a Commissioner in Lagos State when President Bola Tinubu was governor, also cleared the President of any involvement in the APC’s present leadership crisis.
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He stated that President Tinubu has little to gain by replacing the party’s Chairman, even if he did not initially back him for President, and that dissatisfied members of the NWC are most likely to blame for Adamu’s resignation.
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