After recent plans by various stakeholders to unseat the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the leadership crisis that has been rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, may have taken on a new turn.
At a convention held on March 26 to elect members of the APC National Working Committee NWC, Adamu was successfully re-elected to his position as national chairman of the party.
However, despite the growing number of complaints that were lodged against Adamu, there were no moves made to remove him from his position.
It became clear over the course of the weekend that certain APC stakeholders were attempting to appease the Christian bloc within the party by working to remove the party chairman from his position as part of a problem-solving effort. The objective, according to a senior member of the APC who spoke anonymously to the media, was to strike a better balance of power within the party.
The leader of the party stated, "Yes, there are those who feel that the controversy generated by our Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket can be lessened by having a Christian chairman and also proposing a Christian Chief of Staff to the President." The leader of the party also added, "Yes, there are those who feel that the controversy generated by our Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket can be lessened by having a Some people have suggested that James Faleke, a member of Congress, should be considered for that position, which is Chief of Staff. There are questions that need to be answered before Adamu can continue to serve as chair of the party. The first is that it is necessary for us to appease the members of the Christian community. Second, considering that we are in the midst of an election season, many of us had high hopes for Adamu, but he hasn't accomplished very much. We absolutely require the functioning of the party's bureaucracy during this election cycle; however, their salaries are not even being paid, and yet you expect them to perform effectively.
That is one thing that could be used against the chairman in the upcoming election. In addition to that, before he was elected as the national chairman of the party, he served as the chairman of the APC National Reconciliation Committee.
We anticipated that by this point, he would have been able to settle the major disagreements; however, that has not been the case. President Muhammadu Buhari, the leader of our party, has also urged us to return the money that was paid by aspirants at the convention that resulted in Adamu being elected as national chairman. Candidates have already paid millions of dollars, but we have not yet given them a refund. These are some of the problems that have arisen."
Another complaint levelled against Adamu was that the party has not yet complied with the presidential order to refund the nomination fees paid by all aspirants at the party's March 26 National Convention who stepped down in favour of the party's consensus arrangement. President Buhari issued this directive more than four months ago, but the party has not yet refunded the money.
As a consequence of the party's arrangement for reaching consensus, the party was obligated to compensate those aspirants from the ward to the national level who were required to step down for the benefit of others.
In addition, during the course of the previous two months, the party had failed to honour the scheduled payment of staff salaries.
According to a second source, "the salary for the month of June was paid in the middle of July, while the staff only received their pay for the month of July last Friday, as opposed to payment on the 25th of every month."
It should be recalled that in an effort to perfect a consensus arrangement in advance of the party's March 27 National Convention, President Buhari, at a meeting on March 23 with eight national chairmanship aspirants at the Villa, persuaded them to step down for a consensus candidate with a promise of a refund of their nomination fee. "It should be recalled that in an effort to perfect a consensus arrangement in advance of the party's March 27 National Convention, President Buhari, at a meeting
After being contacted, Salihu Lukman, the National Vice Chairman of the party for the North West, expressed regret over the delay in payment and stated that the matter was being investigated.
Lukman is quoted as saying, "It is an unfortunate part of the internal challenges. From an administrative standpoint, this issue ought to have been resolved a long time ago. For example, in my situation, approximately four people have stepped aside for me, and they have been talking to me about it.
I have been bringing this matter to the attention of the party, and I believe that it is now abundantly clear that the party must find a solution to it as soon as humanly possible. I am able to give you my word.
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