A former legal adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muiz Banire, SAN, has suggested that the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore might have been forced rather than voluntary.
Banire while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday hours after Senator Abubakar Kyari emerged as the new APC National Chairman and announced Adamu and Omisore’s resignation as national officers of the party stated, “I have been reading Mr. Lukman Saliu for some time; he has been raising a lot of issues, particularly bordering on maladministration of the party, misappropriation of funds, and so on.
“Well, that could be part of it because I know as a matter of fact, in NWC sometimes those are usually issues that usually confront or challenges the body.”
“So, it’s not unlikely that it is as a result of such issues that have been in the public space for some time now; maybe it has reached its peak now and couldn’t be absorbed again. They probably reacted.”
“I’m not too sure that the resignation could have been voluntary, in my view, I might be wrong; I probably believe that maybe the pressure of other colleagues of theirs forced them eventually to tender their resignation,” Banire said.
Banire who served as commissioner in Lagos State when President Tinubu was governor described the two chieftain’s resignation as an unusual situation absolved the president of anything to do with the party’s leadership crisis
