The crisis rocked the state chapter of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa state over the leadership of the party. The
two opposing groups appeared ahead of the 2019 general polls: one supports
former vice president Atiku Abubakar and another backs the incumbent leader of
the nation Muhammadu Buhari.
Abubakar’s camp is headed by Governor Muhammadu
Umaru Jibrilla, while Buhari’s is being led by Secretary to Government of the
Federation (SGF), David Babachir, the three senators representing Adamawa state
and Alhaji Haladu Mohammed, (Sardauna Jimeta) a main financier of governor
Jibrila’s poll. The current leadership of the APC in the state is presented by
the Governor, Murtala Nyako, a staunch supporter of the president. Nyako
carefully selected the members of the party executive with Senator Binta Garba
Maci, as the state chairman. All candidates of the former VP comprising the
present House of Representative member representing Jada, Toungo, Mayo-belwa
and Genye constituency, Comrade Abdularazak Namdas, lost the party leadership
polls.
However, trying to back Atiku, who allegedly has
interest to run for 2019 presidential poll, the governor two weeks ago
appointed his APC state chairman without the conduct of any poll.The late
party’s state chairperson Alhaji Shaibu Yamusa’s office before his death last
week, was supposedly broken into and taken over by one Dimas Ezra, the APC vice
chairman Adamawa central, while the late chairman was participating in a
meeting in Numan his home local government area. Since the governor took over
the mantle of leadership in the state, APC has been facing problems due to lack
of money and it was supposed that the plan was to let the party to crumble
financially and go into comatose so that the Atiku group can set up their
structures.
However, speaking on the crisis, the deputy
national vice chairman of the ruling party Boss Mustapha, has stated that APC
Adamawa was not in crisis and that the party has only one chairperson who he
said died recently in Kano and that there was no other politician acting in his
capacity. Muhammadu Buhari and Abubakar were running a tight race in the build
up to the All Progressive Congress presidential primaries before the last year
presidential primaries. However, Buhari won the contest and later became the
President of Nigeria.
