National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, has tendered his resignation as leader of the ruling party.
It was learnt that the embattled Adamu who announced his resignation on Sunday night, did so on the order of President Bola Tinubu.
Similarly, the party’s National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, also tendered his resignation minutes after his superior did.
Truth Live News recalls that many battles had rocked the APC leadership since the party won the February 25, 2023 presidential election.
Before his resignation on Sunday night, Adama ordered the immediate postponement of the meeting he was scheduled to hold with the NWC next week.
Also, it was learnt that all members of the NWC are expected to compulsorily resign their position alongside the National Chairman and his Secretary.
The NWC members are also said to be miffed by the alleged lack of transparency in the party’s 2022 Account audit, which they said was “surreptitiously secured and submitted without any of the members sighting it.”
When Truth Live News spoke to a party leader by telephone, he confirmed that Adamu was forced to bow out over many issues, including his non-support for President Bola Tinubu during the campaign.
He said: “Adamu was not going to stay long in that office anyways, considering the open opposition he raised against Tinubu’s emergence as the party’s candidate during the primary”.
“I thought he was not tactical at all; how could a sitting national chairman openly support a candidate during primary and a northern candidate for that matter when all the APC governors had jointly agreed that power should shift to the south after the then President Buhari had done his eight years in office?”, the party stalwart who did not want his name mentioned queried.
“That was the same attitude Ayu displayed in the PDP that took the party to its kneels today and Ayu is nowhere to be found.