Hon Bernard Mikko, a former gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has described the resignation of Abdullahi Adamu as belated.
In his conversation with journalists on Monday, July 17, Mikko claimed that Adamu was one of those who plotted against the emergence of President Bola Tinubu before the presidential primaries and after he emerged as the candidate of the APC.
The former governorship aspirant alleged that Adamu tried to build a consensus around his preferred candidate but eventually failed.
Stating that Adamu should have resigned immediately after the swearing of President Tinubu, Mikko said:
“First of all, there’s no crisis in our party, the APC. The second one is that his resignation should not come as a surprise; it’s even belated. You know how a leader emerges will determine he will lead his people.
“In politics, you align the programmes and policies of the government or the ruling party to public orientation. This chairman has shown from the beginning his preferences other than the preferences of the stakeholders of the party.
“From the beginning, he has shown that he is not a democrat in the spirit of party politics. As chairman of the party, having emerged as the national chairman of the party, he should have shown neutrality from the beginning, but he never showed it.
“He came up trying to build a consensus around his own preferred candidate, which he didn’t win. What was expected of him at that point was for him to throw his towel and say, ‘look, I preferred someone else but the person didn’t win’.
“But he worked against the emergence of Bola Tinubu. When Tinubu emerged as the preferred candidate, he also worked against his candidature. Now that our president has won, he has no choice.
“I think what he should have done immediately after the inauguration of the president is to throw in the towel. It’s a good development; it will even foster party unity.”
