Why Adamu Abdullahi, Omisore Must Resign – APC Vice Chairman Insists

The North-West National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman, has restated his call for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore.

Speaking on Tuesday during an interview on AIT, he stated that the APC needs to change its leaders.

Lukman stated that there is a need for the party to reactivate all organs while lamenting that after a year, Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee (NWC) has refused to convey the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting.

“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,” he said.

“And that is where we are, and that is partly what is producing some of the unhealthy development in (the party). For instance, Osun State, which is part of the reason why I said the National Secretary has failed, in terms of stabilizing Osun and uniting people.

“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,” he insisted.

Religious Tension

He stated that calls for Adamu’s resignation were part of the sacrifice the ruling party must make to douse tension in the country. He stressed that the APC chairman’s resignation would pave the 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.

His words: “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.”