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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied that its Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, wrote a letter to the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, accusing him (Tinubu) of running a one-man show in the composition of his campaign council.
The ruling party, in a statement issued on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, maintained that the letter did not emanate from its chairman, adding that the letter in circulation was not signed by Adamu.
Some media outlets had earlier reported that Tinubu came under heavy fire from the leadership and national working committee of the party after releasing his presidential campaign council list.
They reported that Adamu accused Tinubu of not honouring the agreement they reached on the composition of his campaign council.
However, Morka said the letter was unsigned and should not be attributed to the APC chairman.
“Our attention has been drawn to a “DRAFT” letter in circulation purportedly written by His Excellency, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the National Chairman of our great Party, addressed to His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of our great Party, expressing dissatisfaction over the recently released list of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).
“To be clear, the “DRAFT” letter did not emanate from the Party. An UNSIGNED letter that marks itself as a ‘DRAFT’ cannot and should not be attributed to its purported author.
“The National Chairman of our Party and our Presidential Candidate maintain cordial and effective communication channels, and enjoy full liberty of open and frank conversations on matters of interest to the Party and our Presidential Campaign. As such, an unsigned “DRAFT” letter of the kind in circulation is patently unnecessary and of no qualitative value to engagement between the Party and the PCC.
“We will not be distracted by the wishes and actions of detractors that wait gleefully but in vain for some kind of crisis to erupt between the Party and the PCC.
“We stand united, as a Party, in our resolve and commitment to execute a focused and issue-driven campaign to persuade Nigerians to renew our mandate in next year’s general election,” the statement read.