By Chesa Chesa
Immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, is not under probe, following the decision of the new party leadership to hire external auditors to comb the party’s account nooks.
This was disclosed to newsmen at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday by the APC National Secretary, Ajibola Bashiru, after a meeting of the APC National Working Committee (NWC) presided over by the new chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje.
It was the first NWC meeting under Ganduje, since Adamu and former Naationall Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, resigned their positions under strange circumstances, as they were allegedly forced to do so by President Bola Tinubu and his loyalists.
Then interim national chairman, Abubakar Kyari, had announced that the party was preparing to hire external auditors to audit the party’s account, a move interpreted to be a probe of Adamu over financial misdeeds.
But Bashiru clarified that the move was not to probe Adamu, but an annual routine procedure of the APC that is in line with the party’s laws.
“We should not misrepresent the reasons for the resignation of our chairman.
“It has been the routine of our party to appoint external auditors and it is a standard procedure and practice everywhere.
“It has nothing to do with the resignation of any officer of our party. And if you go back, there has not been a year that the party’s account has not been audited by external auditors”, he said.
Concerning filling the remaining vacant positions in the NWC, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, said this was would be dine in due course.
According to him: “As you can imagine, we just held our NEC a few days ago, and consultations are ongoing at the moment. I think that in due course, we will be considering the question of filling the remaining vacant positions in the NWC.”
