The new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abudullahi Adamu, and members of the party’s newly-elected National Working Committee (NWC) members formally assumed office on Wednesday.
The chairman and the NWC members were elected at the March 26 national convention of the APC held in Abuja.
The governor of Nasarawa State, Abudullahi Sule, and some critical stakeholders of the APC accompanied Adamu to the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday for the ceremony.
Sen. Adamu was Nasarawa State’s governor from 1999 to 2007
Also on the entourage was Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe, who was the Chairman, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), who managed the party until the national convention was held.
Buni, while handing over the party’s affairs to Adamu through a symbolic handover of its flag, said the task ahead was enormous, especially with the approach of the 2023 general elections.
Adamu, who represented Nasarawa West in the Senate until his election as APC national chairman on March 26, assured that the new leadership would work with the Federal Government to address the country’s challenges.
Speaking on Monday’s terrorists attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train service, Adamu said government was paying attention to acts of terrorism.
“As a party, we condole with families that lost their loved ones in that attack even as there is no official pronouncement on the number of the dead.
“We will not stop there; we will support the Federal Government to see how we can end acts of terrorism in the country; we are not going to rest until the situation is arrested.
“We will stand with government and we will support it.
“We have to face the situation with more hands on deck; we will support the government in any way we can; this will not be left to the military entirely,’’ he assured.
Adamu added that while those perpetrating acts of terrorism in the country were working with the devil, “we will continue to work with God to arrest the situation.’’
He expressed appreciation of the country’s military for its efforts so far at fighting acts of terrorism.
Adamu emerged as APC National Chairman at the party’s March 26 national convention through a consensus arrangement
after six other aspirants stepped down for him.
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