Tinubu's Presidency: "Adamu Must Step Down as APC Chairman," Senator-Elect Gives Reason

• The APC national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, is faced with a fresh threat to step down from his position and give room to the Christian chairmanship of the party
• A senator-elect disclosed the call for Adamu's resignation as elected lawmakers plan to meet Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, today
• The senator-elect, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, disclosed that there was an earlier agreement that the issue would be urgently addressed once Tinubu was declared the winner

FCT, Abuja - Abdullahi Adamu, the national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), is currently under threat of stepping down from his position, a senator-elect has revealed.

According to The Punch, the senator-elect, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that the senators-elect on the APC platform would meet with the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Monday, March 13, and Adamu's resignation topped their agenda.

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Why Adamu has to step down as APC national chairman, Senator-elect

According to the senator-elect, there have been concerns that the party's national chairman should resign to appease the Christian community over the party's Muslim-Muslim ticket.

The lawmaker in waiting said the party hoped that the Christian brothers and sisters would soften their pedals against the APC if one of them emerged as the party's national chairman.

Speaking further, the senator-elect maintained that superior argument posited that such a move could only be possible via a national convention and that going into the presidential and national assembly election with a divided house was not ideal.

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However, he disclosed that they agreed that something urgent must be done as soon as the president and vice president were declared the election winners.

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The statement reads in part:

“I will not be surprised if the National Chairman comes to the meeting tomorrow (today) with his resignation letter in his pocket.”

APC senators-elect meet Tinubu to discuss national assembly leadership

Legit.ng earlier reported that Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, is scheduled to meet the elected senators and house of representatives members of the APC today in Abuja.

The meeting was scheduled to be closed-door, but a source at the APC secretariat disclosed that the discussion would be centred on the leadership of the 10th National Assembly.

According to the source, the ruling party was working to avoid a repeat of the Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara scenario in 2015.

Source: Legit.ng