Trouble looms ahead of Tuesday’s National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress following allegation that APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, is shielding the audit report of the party’s account from the National Working Committee.
The development is coming one week after the National Secretary of the party, Iyiola Omisore, announced that the APC will host its long-awaited National Caucus and National Executive Committee meetings slated for July 10 and 11, respectively.
While the caucus meeting is scheduled to hold today at the Presidential Villa by 6pm, the NEC meeting is slated for 10am on Tuesday at Transcorp Hilton.
However, the agenda of the meetings was missing from the notice, which was also advertised on social media and major newspapers across the country.
Meanwhile multiple sources at the secretariat told our correspondent that Adamu and some NWC members may be heading on a collision course if the APC chairman fails to grant them access to the audited report of the party’s account before attempting to present it at the NEC meeting.
Speaking with one of the aggrieved committee members, who spoke in confidence, expressed concern that despite the media trial and his face-off with the Vice Chairman for North-West, Salihu Lukman, Adamu is still running a one-man show at the secretariat.
“As you can see, even Lukman has slowed down. Will he kill himself? He has done more than enough by highlighting all the issues plaguing the party,” the source said.
In a related event, Adamu will on Monday meet with all Chairmen of APC State chapters at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja by 1pm.
I want to believe the priority of NEC, which is the superior organ of the party, will be on the audit of party account, funding, revenues generated from sale of nomination forms to aspirants, cost of the secretariat rehabilitation, which is still unknown to us, and other activities in the last one year. These will be the major thrust of the NEC meeting.
When contacted, APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, who was out of the country for his daughter’s graduation at the University College, London, said no agenda had been released by the party.
In the same vein, Deputy National Organising Secretary of the party, Nze Duru, dismissed speculation that the President may miss the caucus meeting due to his trip to Guinea-Bissau for the 63rd Ordinary Session of Economic Community of West African States.
We initially thought President Tinubu won’t return on time for Tuesday’s NEC after he travelled to Guinea Bissau for ECOWAS meeting. But we understand he is coming back today and could still make the national caucus meeting, which will hold at the State House in the evening.
