Abdullahi Adamu
Muslim-Muslim ticket: APC NWC member demands Adamu’s replacement
The National Vice Chairman (North-west) of the ruling All Progressives (APC) Mallam Salihu Moh Lukman, has advocated for replacement of the party’s national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu (Muslim) with a Christian national chairman from the North-central.
While warning against pitfalls in the process of forming the next federal government by ensuring a broadly inclusive government post May 29, 2023 under the leadership of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President, Lukman also demanded the resignation of Senator Iyiola Omisore as the party’s National Secretary.
The issue of Muslim-Muslim ticket of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima caused a lot of controversies for the ruling party during the election campaign.
But in a statement released to newsmen Friday in Abuja, the party’s North-west chairman said there should be no difficulty in convincing Sen. Adamu to resign as National Chairman to create opportunity for a new National Chairman of APC to emerge who is a Christian.
According to him, APC must avoid past pitfalls and develop proactive strategy of producing a broadly inclusive government post May 29, 2023 under the leadership of Asiwaju Tinubu. For that to happen, first thing first, APC need to acknowledge the groundswell of grievances both within the party and the country and resolved to use the opportunity to setup the next Federal Government to address most of the challenges. It must be acknowledged that the process of producing candidates for 2023 elections itself created so many disputes within the party.
Lukman said: “With a National Chairman, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, who is also a Muslim, it will be important that every necessary step is taken to inject a change of leadership for the party so that a new National Chairman who is a Christian take over. Part of the advantage of this is that the National Chairman could be retained in North-Central.
“Noting that the current National Chairman has done an excellent job to manage a successful campaign to win the 2023 election with all the attendant challenges, there should be no difficulty in convincing Sen. Adamu to resign as National Chairman to create opportunity for a new National Chairman of APC to emerge who is a Christian. For that to happen may require Emergency National Convention because if the hierarchy of the current leadership is to be followed, the successor to Sen. Adamu will be Sen. Abubakar Kyari who is a Muslim from North-east.
“Apart from changing the National Chairman, there is the need to also recognise that the case of Sen. Iyiola Omisore, National Secretary of the party has become a source of stronger dispute in Osun State. Unfortunately, rather than serving as a unifying factor for the party leadership in Osun State, Sen. Omisore is more a divisive factor, which may have been responsible for why APC lost the 2022 Governorship election to a political mediocre whose only qualification in politics may appear to be comic dancing skill. To save Osun State and bring it back to its old standard of national political reckoning, Sen. Omisore would need to resign as National Secretary of APC, and a new unifying National Secretary elected. Beyond Sen. Omisore, similarly, any member of the National Working Committee of the party who is not a unifying leader in his/her state should be changed.”
The APC chieftain said the party must take serious the challenge of reconciling its members across the country and recalibrated party leadership with a new National Chairman.
“APC must never make the mistake of proceeding with the task of constituting the Asiwaju led Federal Government based on business-as-usual strategy. The opportunity of constituting the Federal Government led by Asiwaju Tinubu must be used strategically to reconcile the APC with Nigerians. Every sacrifice must be made by every leader of the party to create the condition for an Asiwaju Tinubu led Federal Government to emerge with strong