Following recent happenings in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Itse Sagay, chieftain of the party and chairman Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) in President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, has said that Senator Abdulahi’s Adamu’s role during the presidential primaries of the party last year is responsible for his predicament.
Sagay who spoke to our reporter on Monday stated that Adamu was careless with his recent utterances concerning the National Assembly elections where he condemned the elections of the executives of the legislative arm of government.
On the allegation that the national chairman has been forced to resign, he said, “I’m not in the inner caucus of the party. I don’t attend meetings. I’m a member and my role is to support and express myself in certain areas.
“From what I gathered, the chairman of the party is intending to resign. I learnt that he tendered a letter of resignation. It’s not the same as resignation. When you tender a letter of resignation, the letter can be rejected. You can be told to withdraw it. So, tendering a letter doesn’t mean that he has resigned.
Sagay added, “I know that there must have been some unhappiness in Tinubu’s camp about the role the chairman played in the nomination process of our presidential candidate.
“He came out openly in support of the former senate president, Ahmed Lawan. He presented him as a consensus candidate when there was no meeting of the party to that effect. I think that must have soured the relationship from that time.
“Again with other things he has done recently where he openly denied the elections of the principal officers in the National Assembly. It’s like opening an old wound.
“I think that must have culminated in bad blood between both sides,” he said.
Speaking about the allegation that President Bola Tinubu is taking his pound of flesh, Sagay said, “If he knows that somebody wants to take his pound of flesh he should have avoided it by not being confrontational.
“I don’t think Adamu was right in saying that all the National Assembly elections were not recognised by the party.
“The elections were done in the Assembly by members in line with the constitution. So, it was a mistake on his part.
“I also heard that Omisore is resigning too and I didn’t know he had any issue. Actually that came as a surprise to me.
Reacting to the likelihood of the south-east region which is said to be jostling for the position of national secretary of the party, getting the slot, he said, “It’s possible, they can get it but the position of the chairman must still go back to the north,” Sagay said.
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