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National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has expressed hope and prayed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu patronises the party both at the state and national levels for appointments.
Adamu also confirmed that Ekiti state Chairman of APC, Paul Omotosho, is still in the hands of kidnappers.
Adamu’s position came amidst speculations that Tinubu would work more with technocrats than politicians.
This has gotten party stakeholders worried as they feared that their effort for the APC during the presidential polls might go unrewarded.
But the president has consistently assured that he would reward the APC stakeholders for their roles during the polls, saying their efforts shall not go in vain.
Adamu speaks
Speaking along that line during a meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) with APC state chairmen at the party’s national secretariat Monday, the national chairman said Tinubu’s federal government is currently going through formation of government, adding that the next two months would witness various appointments of persons into various vacancies.
Adamu said: “Every APC member has an inherent right to hope to get some patronage. And we can all get one here. We cannot all be ministers of the government. We cannot all end up as board members, directors of parastatals and MDAs across the country.
“It is our hope and prayers that Mr. President will come along with us in that regard and strengthen the relationship of the party in the states and at the national level will enjoy some level of patronage in the new government. Those are the key issues that we do hope to share with you in the course of this meeting.
“The President has just started. And he is doing his extensive consultation before coming up with his nominees for Ministers. The nomination of the Ministers will come first.
They will go through their screening until they are pronounced after they have been submitted by Mr. President. And Mr President will formally appoint his Ministers and swear them in.
“Only after doing that will he disclose each of them to the country to know which Minister is going to which ministry, and how many ministries we are going to have. After that is done, the Ministers assume office and make a comprehensive report starting from all the ministry, and MDAs under them before we are going to know what vacancies exist of Chief Executives, Directors and part time directors.
These are some of the exercise that will take place in the next two months. It cannot happen by next week but certainly that is what we should be expecting.”
Kidnapped Ekiti chair
On the kidnap of Ekiti state chairman, Adamu said: “We announce with the deepest sense of sorrow, a member of the state chairmen, the chairman of Ekiti state. We got to know today that he was kidnapped. And as at the time of coming to this meeting, he was still in the hands of the kidnappers.
“It is our hope and prayers that he will be speared and brought home soonest.
“In the same vein, we regret to announced, the extreme incapacity of the Governor of Ondo state who we understand has been hospitalised oversea. We wish and pray for him for a speedy recovery.”
Speaking with newsmen shortly after the meeting, acting secretary of the Forum of APC Chairmen and chairman of Cross River state, Alphonsus Oga, said there is no crisis over the list of names being compiled in the states for appointments, adding that the letters for such names were addressed to the state chairmen.
He said: “Those letters were addressed to state chairmen, and every state chairman is loyal to his state governor and where there’s no governor, they are loyal to the stakeholders. There’s no such crisis, in fact, we must commend Mr. President for playing to his promise of saying that state chairmen should be captains of these ships and I can assure you that letters were addressed to us.” (Blueprint)
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