The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has distanced itself from the claim of the party’s national Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, that the committee was not aware of the choice of principal officers of the National Assembly.
Senator Adamu, in his opening remarks at a meeting with the Hope Uzodimma-led Progressives Governors Forum on Tuesday, openly expressed disapproval of the announcement of the principal officers of both chambers of Parliament, saying that the list did not emanate from the party’s national secretariat.
However, contrary to Adamu’s claim, a national officer of the party who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune on the condition of anonymity accused the APC national chairman of acting in bad faith because his preferred lawmaker was not chosen as the Senate Leader, revealing that the chairman was privy to the list.
“He is angry that a certain lawmaker from the North whom he wanted did not make it to the office of Senate Leader,” the source declared.
In a related development, three NWC members of the APC who spoke to some selected media houses in Abuja on Wednesday corroborated the aforementioned report.
The NWC members, who distanced themselves from Senator Adamu’s claim that he was not aware of the list of preferred principal officers, told journalists that the APC National Chairman may have resolved on his own to fight the Tinubu administration by his consistent attacks on actions traced to the President and Leader of the APC.
They disclosed that the governors at the closed-door session after the APC National Chairman’s outburst asked him to meet with the leadership of both chambers of the National Assembly to resolve perceived differences.
According to them, the governors also told him that his open disapproval of the list could be seen as an affront to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who endorsed the list before Senators Godswill Akpabio and Tajudeen Abbas, Senate President and Speaker, House of Representatives, read it at their Tuesday plenary.
Recently, there has been a perceptible cold war between President Tinubu and the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and MUK TV understand that the bad blood between the two may not be unconnected to Adamu’s non-support for Tinubu in the build-up to the party’s presidential primaries last year.
