It is no longer news as Senator Abdullahi Adamu was announced Saturday as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The senator was returned unopposed on Saturday at the party’s national convention held at Eagle Square in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Here are some interesting facts about the new APC national chairman;

Abdullahi Adamu, popularly called the “Bridge” was born in Keffi, Nasarawa, on July 23, 1946.
Adamu attended Abdu Zanga Primary School, Keffi, and completed it at the Laminga Senior Primary School in 1959.
He moved to the Government Secondary School, Makurdi, Benue State between 1960 and 1962 and thereafter to the Government Technical College, Bukuru, Plateau State from 1962 to 1965.
The Nasarawa-born politician obtained the Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Building and Civil Engineering from the Kaduna Polytechnic in 1968 and the Higher National Diploma from the same institution in 1971.
In 1983, Adamu went to the University of Jos to study law as a part-time student. He was through with his studies by 1992 and enrolled in the Nigeria Law School, Lagos.
He began his political career in 1977 when he was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly, which drafted the 1979 Constitution.
In 1994, the new APC chairman was appointed a member of the National Constitutional Conference convoked by the military administration of Sani Abacha.
A year later, precisely in 1995, the lawyer was appointed the Minister of State for Works and Housing, a position he occupied until November 17, 1997.
In 1999, Senator Adamu became a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He contested and won the governorship election of Nasarawa. He was governor for eight years between May 1999 and 2007.
After his tenure, Adamu was charged to court in 2010 by the EFCC alongside 19 other Nasarawa State officials with 149 counts of corruption. The anti-graft body accused him of embezzling N15 billion public funds.
In 2007, the year he left office, the former governor won election into the Senate on PDP’s platform to represent Nasarawa West Senatorial District in 2007. On January 29, 2014, he and 10 other PDP senators joined the APC.
Adamu, who is married with five children, holds the traditional titles of Sarkin Yakin Keffi and Aare Obateru of the Source, Ife, Osun.

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15billion thief chairman

What happened to his case in EFCC?

Swept under the carpet?
Plea bargain?
Slap on the wrist, go and sin no more?

APC chairmanship!!!!

In China he would have been swimming with the sharks by now...or dancing azonto in hell fire

Kestolove:
15billion thief chairman

Spewing rubbish as usual.

If the ask you for evidence, you'll start crying.

How una dey cope with sani bello self?

Ahmed0336:


Spewing rubbish as usual.

If the ask you for evidence, you'll start crying.

How una dey cope with sani bello self?

Sani bello is 100 million times better than adamu

Being in Government since 1977 and has nothing to show for his constituency and for ordinary Nigerians at large but given title of "building bridge," Bridge go where and link to who?
And they will say they are serving their fatherland till dollar turn to #600 from #1.

Interesting, he did all his schools in Nigeria

Him say monkey Swallow 70milion for him farm.

Why appoint an old man like this as your chairman, he does not look agile self, Nigerians and there likes for old men

His Bad side are more that his good sides
*His Nagari farm is in bad shape
*He Built International market
*He single handedly allocated all the juicy Lands in Karu Local Government to himself and is cronies
*He owns maraba market,based on speculation
*He lost out to Wadada in the Primaries but bought his way out with money
Good luck to him