The ruling All Progressives Congress on Wednesday said there was no plan to remove its National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu.
Some party faithful have been moving against Adamu for allegedly taking unilateral decisions, citing the build-up to the party’s presidential primary when he declared the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, as the party’s consensus candidate.
There is also ongoing agitation of the party’s failure to refund the nomination fees of 126 aspirants as promised.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, said there was no plan to remove the chairman.
The statement read, “The attention of the All Progressives Congress has been drawn to opposition-sponsored media reports on plots to remove the National Chairman of the Party, Abdullahi Adamu.
“The reports are based on the imagination of its sponsors ostensibly unnerved by the remarkable achievements of Adamu since assuming office as the National Chairman.
“Our party and leaders are currently focused on the important task of building a strong and vibrant electoral campaign ahead, and will not be distracted by boring chirps of idle speculators.
“The opposition People’s Democratic Party is quite welcome to continue to dissipate its energies on innuendoes and chasing after phantom plots in APC rather than concentrate on mending its broken and acrimonious house. The National Working Committee of our party stands united under Adamu’s leadership as National Chairman with the singular commitment to winning the next general election.”
An emergency National Executive Committee meeting of the party has been tentatively scheduled for the first week of September by the National Working Committee.
The date is, however, subject to the approval of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who doubles as the National Leader of the party.
The NEC meeting became necessary following the expiration of the 90 days transfer of power granted to the NWC of the party by the party’s highest decision-making organ at its 11th meeting on April 20 in Abuja.
