National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has spoken on the silence of some presidential aspirants who lost out in the June 8 special presidential convention of the party, saying while they remained members of the party, he could not assess the level of their commitment to Bola Tinubu’s presidential project.

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Although Tinubu had won the ticket of the party during the convention, some of his rivals, such as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and former Transportation Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, have however not shown public commitment to the party’s bid to retain power at the centre.

While Osinbajo was excluded from the APC Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, both Lawan and Amaechi were named as advisers.

The development came as Adamu recalled with displeasure, the state of affairs of the party when he assumed the reins of office in March this year.

At a media parley in Abuja yesterday, Adamu defended his decision to reorganize the party bureaucracy, saying he inherited a very disorganized workforce and a secretariat “where anything goes and everyone was just doing his own thing”.

Party insiders said his comments could be seen as a subtle dig at the defunct Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC which steered the affairs of the party for almost two years before being forced out during a special elective national convention in March.


Adamu said he inherited billions of Naira in debts from his predecessor.

On Osinbajo, Lawan and Amaechi, the APC national chairman said: “To the best of our knowledge, they are keying into this project.

”However, each of the aspirants at the convention is still alive and as journalists, you owe it a duty, having observed or having the state of mind that requires to know where they stand today.

”It will be a bit absurd for me to start talking for them on things you feel you have not seen or heard from them. As for reconciliation, it is still a work in progress and we have been doing it. ”We have been talking to them and these guys are still very much around the political space. You can ask them whatever your observations are”.

On the reorganization of the party’s workforce, Adamu said; “The fact of the matter is, go round the secretariat, there is no one person who has come here who is a member of my family – primary or secondary.

“When we came here, we came to reorganize and reposition the party. You don’t see the party in a state of mess and just because you want to be decent, because you don’t want to offend anybody, you allow the rot that you inherited to go on.

“We came and met the party where people were fixing all manner of things, the legal bill alone was over N7.5 billion. We came to find that here, everybody was like on his own. Everyone was just doing what they wanted to do, no control, no system, no due process and just because you don’t want to be accused of anything, you just allow that kind of thing to go on. I am not that brand. My DNA has terrible allergy for that and I am sure most, if not all of my members in the NWC share in this.

“So, we found the necessity to reorganize the whole place and only God knows the extent of appreciation of the public that we got. Of course, every situation of change has its victims and ours will not be an exception and we didn’t do anything with any bias or prejudice. The main thing is the interest of the party, to reposition it in an election year. We will be abused, we will be falsely accused. Ofcourse, we are humans, I am not saying we couldn’t have made one or two mistakes but the fact of the matter is that there is nothing we have done deliberately just to promote our own feathers.

“Recently, we tried to introduce table payment. We know we don’t have 200 people working here but if you go to the payroll, you have over 200 people. Who are they? How did they come on our payroll? What are they doing for us? What is the nature of their jobs? Where are their letters of appointment? What qualifications do they have? You don’t because you want to avoid negative press and then not do this. We did everything in good faith and I don’t have any qualms about it”, he added.

Adamu had on April 22 ordered all departmental directors at the ‘Buhari House’ national secretariat of the party to proceed on indefinite suspension.

On assumption of office on April 1, Adamu had immediately hinted of the possibility of reorganizing the national secretariat while he also embarked on remodelling the party secretariat, relocating his office from the third to the ground floor.

Although he promised to do a staff audit, the report of the exercise which showed an over-bloated workforce has not been implemented despite the committee concluding its assignment several weeks ago.


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Nlfpmod Nlfpmod seun Lalasticala

Osinbajo, Amaechi and lawan still have a future politically, and aligning with Tinubu may cost them their futures.

Who wan support national embarrassment ?

Wise up, everyone has become wise.

Every sane person is ostracising Tinubu.

How can you campaign for Tinubu without looking stupid in eyes of sane Nigerians?

Hahahaha, I am tired of this people. What a political party, very funny party

Nobody wants to associates with BAT they will kill him with catapult

A confused party.

successmatters:
Osinbajo, Amaechi and lawan still have a future politically, and aligning with Tinubu may cost them their futures.

Who wan support national embarrassment ?

But Aligning with him made them who they are today... I can't blame you children of 8 has no memory of History .you Aligning with Tinubu will give you better life than the hatred and bitterness you Aligning with.

The earlier you distance yourself from a potential failure the better for your career politically or otherwise.

I thought you ppl called them baby politicians and claim they hold no real power and support, so why worry over their support

adekolaelect:
But Aligning with him made them who they are today... I can't blame you children of 8 has no memory of History .you Aligning with Tinubu will give you better life than the hatred and bitterness you Aligning with.

Na only stubborn housefly wey refuse to hear advice dey follow corpse enter casket - African proverbs

People should know when to withdraw from a disaster already happening.

Oluwatose

Tinubu IS FAKE ASF

One governor will claim he build abuja once abuja stop being the FCT.

For Lagos to be FCT na moinmoin? Tinubu supporters claiming he built FCT (Lagos). Was Tinubu the FCT (Lagos) minister?

Or was Tinubu the white men who who used Lagos as administrative center of their colonial trade?

Was Tinubu Alj. Jakande who built most infrastructures in Lagos?

Was Tinubu the military head of states who built Thirdmainland bridge and other major bridges in lagos?

They are even using Ambode Osodi bridge to campaign for Tinubu.

Tinubu did not redesigned Osodi, ambode did
TINUBU did not redesigned berger, AMBODE DID
Tinibu did not redesign Pencinema, Ambode did
Tinubu did not redesign Agege suburb, ambode did.

Tinubu removed ambode for doing so much at the expense of sharing money to APC party leaders.
Tinubu was only able to create agbero owomida system in lagos. He successfully created his own militia group.

Tinubu is just the head of touts

Nigeria, know your enemy

successmatters:


Na only stubborn housefly wey refuse to hear advice dey follow corpse enter casket - African proverbs

People should know when to withdraw from a disaster already happening.

Who your advice help??Na you know where you see the disaster coming to you because you and your thoughts always associating with Negativities.

Chai!!!! Which kind chairman be this....how do you want chieftains to trust you and the party.