APC Vice-Chairman Asks Abdullahi Adamu, Omisore To Resign 

The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) North-west, Salihu Lukman, has asked the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore to resign.

Lukman made the call in a statement released on Friday while also calling for an emergency national convention for the party members.

Following the emergence of Bola Tinubu as President-Elect, Lukman harped on the importance of a new National Chairman of the party to be a Christian.

He also emphasised that the National Chairman could be retained in North-Central.

Lukman held that Adamu has done an excellent job to see the party victorious in the 2023 election despite the challenges in place.

He added that it would be difficult to convince Adamu to resign as National Chairman to allow a Christian takeover.

Lukman said, “For that to happen, it may require an Emergency National Convention because if the hierarchy of the current leadership is to be followed, the successor to Sen. Adamu will be Sen. Abubakar Kyari who is a Muslim from the North-East.”

He noted that apart from asking Adamu to step aside, the National Secretary of the party should also resign, saying that Omisore has become a source of stronger dispute in Osun State.

Lukman claimed that Omisore has been a dividing factor in Osun State rather than serving as a unifying factor in the party.

He said the issue might have seen the party defeated in the 2022 governorship election to a political mediocre whose only qualification in politics may appear to be a comic dancing skill.

Lukman said to save Osun State and bring it back to its old standard of national political reckoning, Omisore would need to resign as National Secretary of APC, and have a new unifying National Secretary elected.

He pointed out that beyond Omisore, any member of the National Working Committee of the party who is not a unifying leader in his/her state should be changed.