President Muhammadu Buhari has said the new National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, being a founding member of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a thing of the past.
This is according to a statement signed on Sunday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, obtained by POLITICS NIGERIA.
Buhari blamed the PDP for doing the work all these years only to divide the country, leading to all manner of separatist agitations.
“That some of the APC’s new leadership were once in the opposition was the new line to take to the media, somehow suggesting that those who have left one party should not hold positions in another. Yet, do the Scriptures not teach us of the virtue of sinners who repent and change their ways?” the presidency’s statement reads in part.
Adamu served as governor of Nasarawa state on the platform of the PDP. He went on to also clinch his senatorial position as a member of the party in 2011.
At the end of his two-term as governor, Adamu became secretary, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP and only defected from the PDP in 2013 having joined the then “New PDP” which left with some chieftains of the then ruling party to join the newly formed APC.
