National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu has denied writing Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the party, over the flagbearer’s choice of membership of the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC.
Reports had it on Thursday that the alleged face-off between members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC and the Party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) blew open, with Adamu writing Tinubu, accusing the PCC of working unilaterally.
This was a few days after the Presidential Campaign Council suspended all its activities scheduled before the commencement of the Presidential Campaign, which was officially supposed to have kicked off on Wednesday.
In the said letter addressed to Tinubu titled: “Release of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council listing”, Adamu had accused the presidential candidate of breaching an agreement reached with NWC members, and therefore asked for the council’s restraint from further actions.
According to the purported letter in circulation, Adamu is of the opinion that both the committee set up by NWC and PCC should have reconciled the list before its release but this was not done.
But, in a statement on Thursday by Barr. Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of APC, the party said such “draft” letter never emanated from the Chairman, adding that Adamu and Tinubu maintain a cordial and effective communication channels.
Read the press release below;
APC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL – SENATOR ABDULLAHI ADAMU DID NOT WRITE ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU
Our attention has been drawn to a “DRAFT” letter in circulation purportedly written by His Excellency, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the National Chairman of our great Party, addressed to His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of our great Party, expressing dissatisfaction over the recently released list of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).
To be clear, the “DRAFT” letter did not emanate from the Party. An UNSIGNED letter that marks itself as a ‘DRAFT’ cannot and should not be attributed to its purported author.
The National Chairman of our Party and our Presidential Candidate maintain cordial and effective communication channels, and enjoy full liberty of open and frank conversations on matters of interest to the Party and our Presidential Campaign. As such, an unsigned “DRAFT” letter of the kind in circulation is patently unnecessary and of no qualitative value to engagement between the Party and the PCC.
We will not be distracted by the wishes and actions of detractors that wait gleefully but in vain for some kind of crisis to erupt between the Party and the PCC.
We stand united, as a Party, in our resolve and commitment to execute a focused and issue-driven campaign to persuade Nigerians to renew our mandate in next year’s general election.
Signed:
Barr. Felix Morka
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)