Breaking: Senator Abdullahi Adamu emerges APC Chairman

Senator Abdullahi Adamu was elected the All Progressives Congress (APCnew )’s National Chairman during the party’s convention in Abuja.

On Saturday, Adamu was chosen uncontested at the APC Convention at Abuja’s Eagles Square.

Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State declared Adamu as the new APC chairman after he was supported by party members.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s consensus candidate has been Adamu. As a result, his election as chairman of the convention came as no surprise.

Six candidates for the party’s chairperson had already stepped down, allowing Adamu to emerge as a consensus candidate.

Sens. Tanko Al-Makura, George Akume, Abdulaziz Yari, Sani Musa Muhammed, Etsu Muhammed, and Malam Saliu Mustapha are the members of the committee.
In a letter to the Chairman, APC Election Sub-Committee, written by one of the candidates, Sen. George Akume, and made accessible to newsmen on Saturday in Abuja, the aspirants said that they had opted to stand aside for Adamu out of respect for the president.

“May I kindly refer to President Muhammad Buhari’s request to our great party’s chairmanship hopefuls to agree to a consensus solution whereby our comrade Sen. Abdullahi Adamu is named our consensus candidate for the chairperson post,” the letter continues.

Also, Nasarawa State Governor Abudulahi Sule intimated that President Buhari had urged the party to come up with a consensus candidate in order to guarantee a calm and rancour-free convention.

President Buhari’s request for a consensus candidate prompted the decision, according to Sule, chairman of the APC National Convention Sub-Committee on Media and Publicity.

He said that if a consensus candidate emerges, the party’s leadership may return money paid by hopefuls for the purchase of Expression of Interest and Nomination forms.