As delegates arrive the venue of the national convention of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Abuja on Saturday, a forwarding letter to the chairman, Convention Planning Sub-committee citing withdrawal of six chairmanship aspirants from the race has emerged.
The letter signed by the Minister of Special Duties, Senator George Akume on behalf of the other aspirants, was dated March 25th.
It reads in part: “May I kindly refer to the appeal by Mr. President for the Chairmanship aspirants of our great party to agree to a consensus arrangement wherein our colleague, H.E. Sen. Abdullahi Adamu is made our consensus candidate for the chairmanship position and forward letters of withdrawal from the under listed aspirants to wit:”
The aspirants are: Sen. Tanko Al-Makura, Sen. George Akume, Abdulaziz Yari, Sen. Sani Musa Muhammed, Etsu Muhammed and Salihu Mustapha.
With this development, the former Governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu can now smile to emerge as the next chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), in the ongoing national convention.
AFRIPOST recalls that Adamu was the choice of President Muhammadu Buhari to emerge as the party’s chairman.