A former legal adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muiz Banire, SAN, on Monday suggested that colleagues of the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore may have forced their resignation.
Banire spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday hours after Senator Abubakar Kyari emerged as the new acting APC National Chairman and announced Adamu and Omisore’s resignation as national officers of the party.
According to the former party’s legal practitioner, the duo’s resignation may have been forced, adding that it was an unusual situation that must have been birthed by certain circumstances which are not obvious to people now, but believes that the National Working Committee and the National Executive Council certainly knows all that had gone on before the sudden resignation
“I have been reading Mr Lukman Saliu for some time; he has been raising a lot of issues, particularly bordering on maladministration of the party, misappropriation funds and so on.
“Well, that could be part of it because I know as a matter of fact, in NWC sometimes those are usually issues that usually confronts or challenges the body.
“So, it’s not unlikely that it is as a result of such issues that have been in the public space for some time now; maybe it has reached its peak now and couldn’t be absorbed again. They probably reacted.
“I’m not too sure that the resignation could have been voluntarily, in my view, I might be wrong; I probably believe that maybe the pressure of other colleagues of theirs forced them eventually to tender their resignation,” Banire said.
Banire, who served as a Commissioner in Lagos State when President Bola Tinubu was the governor, also absolved the President of having anything to do with the current leadership situation in the APC.
He said that President Tinubu did not have anything to gain by removing the party’s Chairman even if he did not support him to become the President at the initial stage, adding that the disgruntled members of the NWC are most likely responsible for Adamu’s resignation instead.
