Tension In ‘Buhari House’ As APC Chairman Adamu Suspends All Directors

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has fired the six directors of the APC at Buhari House and directed them to embark on a compulsory leave beginning from Friday.

This is part of plans by the National Working Committee to “reorganise the national secretariat.”

Among those affected by the new instruction is the head of the party’s legal department.

According to a letter dated April 21, 2022, and signed by the National Secretary, Dr Iyiola Omisore, all the directors are to hand over their departments to the most senior officials below them.

This decision is in line with the recommendation of the Transition Committee set up by Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led NWC three weeks ago.

On April 1, 2022, reported that the Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu, hinted at his intention to probe the national secretariat as well as the directors.

Adamu said this after receiving his certificate of return from the National Convention Election Committee led by Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru.

Speaking to party officials at the time, he said, “I am a team player and as much as possible, I want to carry everybody along.

“We will definitely, by the will of God Almighty, need to look at the secretariat, but I’m not saying anything today until the transition committee submits its report.”

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The former Nasarawa governor declared that the party could not continue to carry on with the old way of doing things, adding that his administration will have zero tolerance for failure.

“As for you the Director of Administration, you have no hiding place. We will count on your loyalty to the party. It is in God’s pleasure that we are here at the helm of affairs of this party. We have come with a very open mind but you have to reciprocate in the same spirit.

“We will, definitely by the will of God Almighty, the Secretariat, we need to look at you but I am not saying anything today until the transition committee submits its report.

“It is my hope that by the time the report is submitted, you have what they call a clean bill of the ledger, that is my prayer. Right?

“We have zero tolerance for failure in this new dispensation of our great party”, he had declared.

He immediately set up a transition committee headed by a former Governor of Jigawa State, Ali Saad Birnin Kudu to study the handing over a note of the defunct Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC and other sundry matters affecting the National Secretariat of the party.

On Friday however, Newsflash Nigeria gathered that Adamu, based on the committee’s recommendations decided to suspend the directors, at about eight of them.

Some of the departments include those Administration, Organization, Welfare, Strategy, Legal and Publicity.

Adamu’s action is the first of its kind at the secretariat. On assumption of office in June 2020, the then national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole had said he would reorganize the secretariat by removing those who had no business at the party house.

He indeed embarked on some form of staff verification and weeded out those found wanting.

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