Abubakar Kyari, deputy national chairman (north) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has become the acting national chairman of the party.
Kyari took over from Abdullahi Adamu who resigned as the party’s chairman on Sunday night. He presided over the APC’s national working committee (NWC) meeting in Abuja on Monday.
Briefing reporters after the NWC meeting, Kyari formally announced the resignation of Adamu and Iyiola Omisore as the party’s national chairman and national secretary, respectively.
Kyari further said Festus Fuanter, the deputy national secretary, will act as national secretary of the APC.
Adamu was absent from the NWC meeting on Monday while Omisore stormed out of the meeting held at the party secretariat in Abuja.
In March 2022, Adamu became the APC national chairman about two years after the dissolution of the Adams Oshiomhole-led NWC was dissolved.
Adamu was governor of Nasarawa State from May 1999 to May 2007. The 76-year-old politician represented Nasarawa west senatorial district in the national Assembly between May 2011 and April 2022.
In the buildup to the APC presidential primary in June 2022, Adamu announced then Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, as the party’s consensus candidate but the announcement was strongly rejected by a league of northern governors who preferred former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu.