Why Adamu, Omisore Must Resign -APC Chieftain Insists, Cites Equity, Mismanagement Of Funds

By Ayodele Oni

The internal feud rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)  continues as a National leader of the Party insisted that both the National Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, must resign.

Since after the Presidential election won by Bola Tinubu, candidate of APC, there has been internal wrangling with a group calling for the resignation of the two top officials.

North West National Vice Chairman of the APC, Dr. Salihu Lukman, has joined the call, accusing the National Secretary, Omisore, of mismanaging campaign funds given to him by the party to prosecute the Osun State governorship election.

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Ademola Adeleke, won the July 16, 2022 governorship election after defeating Gboyega Oyetola of the APC.

Lukman, who spoke on Tuesday in an interview on AIT, reiterated his call for Omisore to vacate his seat, and stressed the need to reactivate organs of the party after election.

He lamented that after a year, the Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee, (NWC), has refused to convene the National Executive Council, (NEC), meeting, despite the Constitution stipulating that NEC must meet every quarter.

“We must emphasize that acting as a party requires that we activate the organs of the party to function. And I think this is the struggle we have been waging and once the organs of the party are not working, then even the capacity to hold leaders to account will be weak.

“Part of the issue with that is that I’m aware the party has given some campaign funds to Osun which was handled by the National Secretary and to some extent, he has either mismanaged it, but more importantly, he’s not accounting to anybody and you have to activate the process of accountability.

“And for me, I think as part of the process of accountability in order to stabilize Osun, I think the National Secretary should also vacate his seat.”

The Party Chieftain noted that his call for Adamu’s resignation is not a witch-hunt, adding that it is part of the sacrifice the ruling party must make to douse tension in the country.

He explained that Adamu’s resignation would pave way for a Christian Chairman from the North-west to assume leadership of the party.

According to him, the whole objective of this is to be able to begin to douse the tension, but more importantly to get the party and the moral authority to try the process of negotiation in constituting the leadership of the next government.

“What you see as the support for Labour Party and even the support for PDP, I can prove it is a protest vote against the APC. No more no less

“And what we should continue asking ourselves constantly, what it is that we have done that is producing this protest vote? And we need to respond to it in a way that really give confidence to Nigerians that we are truly that party of change, which Nigerians have confidence in in 2015 and 2019, and will continue to have confidence in now 23 and beyond. I think that is the challenge before all of us.”