Ganduje, Al-Makura, Ebute line up for Adamu’s replacement as APC Chair

<p>A major task before the All Progressives Congress, APC, is who replaces Abdullahi Adamu as the party’s National Chairman.</p>, <p>A few days ago, Adamu and Iyiola Omisore, APC’s National Secretary, resigned from their positions without explaining the reasons for their action.</p>, <p>Their resignation was confirmed by the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, which appointed its Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Abubakar Kyari, as interim Chairman.</p>, <p>While in office, Adamu is believed to have endured a frosty relationship with President Bola Tinubu, a situation which became more visible when Adamu disowned the list of Principal Officers named in the National Assembly.</p>, <p>But the Progressive Governors Forum endorsed the new officers.</p>, <p>The party’s former National Chairman had stressed that APC’s NWC was unaware of the list transmitted to the Senate and House of Representatives.</p>, <p>“I am just hearing it as a rumour from the online media that there have been some announcements in the Senate and House of Representatives.</p>, <p>“The national headquarters of the party, the NWC, has not given any such information or communicated about the choice of offices,” Adamu said about the list.</p>, <p>Amid the misunderstanding, APC has maintained that there is no crisis within the ruling party.</p>, <p>There are feelers that President Bola Tinubu has sealed a deal with governors of the party to settle for the former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje as Adamu’s replacement.</p>, <p>With the curtain already drawn on Adamu as APC National Chairman, some names have emerged as possible successors.</p>, <p></p>, <p>A former Nasarawa South Senator, Tanko Al-Makura has been tipped by some stakeholders as the best person to replace Adamu.</p>, <p>Al-Makura, who is a former governor of Nasarawa State, has been described as a man with the relevant qualities to head the APC.</p>, <p>A Forum of State Chairmen of Defunct Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, described the former governor as a uni