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A former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Hon Bernard Mikko, has said that the
resignation of Abdullahi Adamu from his position as the National Chairman of
the party was long overdue.
Mikko alleged that Adamu worked against the emergence of
President Bola Tinubu before the presidential primaries and after his emergence
as the candidate of the party.
Reports have it that Adamu allegedly tendered his
resignation letter on Sunday night.
However, Mikko, while fielding questions on Arise
Television’s Morning Show programme on Monday, said Adamu should have resigned
immediately after the inauguration of the President as he did not support him
before and during the election.
He said, “First of all, there’s no crisis in our party, the
APC. The second one is that his resignation should not come as a surprise; it’s
even belated. You know how a leader emerges will determine he will lead his
people.
“In politics, you align the programmes and policies of the
government or the ruling party to public orientation. This chairman has shown
from the beginning his preferences other than the preferences of the
stakeholders of the party.
“From the beginning, he has shown that he is not a democrat
in the spirit of party politics. As chairman of the party, having emerged as
the national chairman of the party, he should have shown neutrality from the
beginning, but he never showed it.
“He came up trying to build a consensus around his own
preferred candidate, which he didn’t win. What was expected of him at that
point was for him to throw his towel and say, ‘look, I preferred someone else
but the person didn’t win’.
“But he worked against the emergence of Bola Tinubu. When
Tinubu emerged as the preferred candidate, he also worked against his
candidature. Now that our president has won, he has no choice.
“I think what he should have done immediately after the
inauguration of the president is to throw in the towel. It’s a good
development; it will even foster party unity.”
