Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, and Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has faulted the consensus arrangement.
Adamu, who was until recently the Chairman of the APC National Reconciliation Committee will be the third substantive National Chairman of the party, as he takes over from Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
Since Oshiomhole was sacked in June 2020, the party had been run by a 12-member caretaker committee led by the Yobe state Governor, Mai Mala Buni.
President Muhammadu Buhari had before now expressed his preference for a consensus arrangement and was reported to have endorsed Senator Adamu.
Although Adamu’s candidacy was said to have been unanimously agreed to on Wednesday by Governors of the party at a meeting with the president, the Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi said he didn’t know about the president endorsing any candidate for chairman but if indeed it was so the Buhari he knows is a democrat and those who do not share the view may of course contest.
Dr Fayemi spoke on Thursday in Abuja at a ‘High-Level Policy Dialogue Themed: Whither Democracy in West Africa?’, organized by the Centre for Democracy and Development CDD West Africa.
While advising the youths to be the change they want to see, Fayemi said dislodging the status quo might be daunting but not insurmountable.
He said: “We will have to confront even our political party structures that are not doing enough. We are not doing enough. We can do a lot better than we are doing. It is not by reversing this process. It is by consolidating the good part of it and jettisoning those aspects of it that would not serve the people.
“On the question of whether the president has anointed anyone to be the Chairman of the party, I have no knowledge of that but the president is well within his rights to have a preferred candidate. But in our party, let him come and campaign for that candidate at Eagle Square on Saturday. If his candidate wins, fine. If his candidate loses, well, he is going to have to live with it.”
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