Adamu’s Resignation Not Voluntary – Banire
The resignation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, may have been forced rather than voluntary, according to Muiz Banire, SAN, a former legal counsel to the party.
Banire stated this when he appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday hours after Senator Abubakar Kyari announced the resignation of Abdullahi Adamu and Senator Iyiola Omisore as national officers of the party.
The duo’s resignation, according to the former APC legal adviser, was an unusual circumstance that must have been brought on by factors that are not currently obvious to people, but he believes that the National Working Committee and the National Executive Council are certain to be aware of everything that occurred prior to the duo’s abrupt resignation.
He said, “I have been reading Mr Lukman Saliu for some time; he has been raising a lot of issues, particularly bordering on maladministration of the party, misappropriation of funds and so on.
“Well, that could be part of it because I know as a matter of fact, in NWC sometimes those are usually issues that usually confronts or challenges the body.
“So, it’s not unlikely that it is as a result of such issues that have been in the public space for some time now; maybe it has reached its peak now and couldn’t be absorbed again. They probably reacted.
“I’m not too sure that the resignation could have been voluntary, in my view, I might be wrong; I probably believe that maybe the pressure of other colleagues of theirs forced them eventually to tender their resignation.”
Banire, who served as a Commissioner in Lagos State when President Bola Tinubu was the governor, also cleared the President of any involvement in the current APC leadership problem.
Even though he initially opposed Tinubu for the position of president, he claimed that President Tinubu had little to gain by ousting the party’s chairman, and added that Adamu’s resignation was likely the result of the NWC’s angry members.
Empire had earlier reported the resignation of the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Abdullahi Adamu alongside his secretary Senator Iyiola Omisore. It was reported that the embattled chairman had submitted his resignation letter to the Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila. Meanwhile, the Deputy National Chairman (North) of the party, Senator Abubakar Kyari, has taken over as the party’s acting National Chairman.
Kyari’s emergence follows the resignation of Abdullahi Adamu and Senator Iyiola Omisore as the party’s acting National Chairman and National Secretary respectively.
