FLASHBACK: We’ll axe Tinubu over comments against Buhari – APC chairman, Adamu

Senator Abdullahi Adamu has resigned from his role as National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Adamu who has been the leader of the party since 2021 was succeeded by the Deputy National Chairman (North) Senator Abubakar Kyari

Kyari succeeded Senator Abdullahi Adamu as the party’s chairman after a National Working Committee (NWC) meeting in Abuja on Monday.

His resignation comes off the back of reports that he was not in support of President Tinubu's ambition to lead Nigeria.

Recall that in June 2022, two days before the party's convention, Senator Adamu said the ruling party would axe the then-national leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his recent utterances against President Muhammadu Buhari.

Adamu disclosed this while addressing journalists in Abuja ahead of the party’s convention slated for Tuesday.

He noted that Tinubu’s apology wasn’t enough because his outburst was an insult to the president.

DAILY POST recalls that Tinubu had while addressing delegates in Ogun state said Buhari wouldn’t have become president in 2015.

“If not for me that stood behind Buhari, he wouldn’t have become the president. He tried the first time, he failed, the second time, he failed, the third time, he failed, he even wept on national television and vowed never to contest again.

“But, I went to meet him in Kaduna and told him he will run again, I will stand by you and you will win, but you must not joke with Yorubas and he agreed.

“Since he became the president, I have never got ministerial slots, I didn’t collect any contract, I have never begged for anything from him, it is the turn of Yoruba, it is my turn,” Tinubu had said.

Reacting, Adamu said Tinubu’s outburst was uncalled for and he must pay for it.