The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied that its National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu did not write any open letter to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu as being circulated.
Newsonline reports that the ruling party said the purported open letter said to have been written by Adamu was the handwork of detractors and not that of the national chairman.
The position of the party was contained in a statement made available to journalists on Thursday, by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka.
Morka said on Thursday, that the chairman would not have written the letter when there are multiple channels of communication within the party with which issues can be addressed.
The statement read, “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.
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“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.”
A strong-worded letter signed by Adamu had circulated on Thursday, accusing Bola Tinubu of not carrying the party leadership along in constituting members of the presidential campaign council.
A part of the letter read, “It is against this background that the NWC received with astonishment and regret, the press release by the PCC on 23rd September 2022, in which a purported list of appointees was announced, which effectively served as the approved roster of participants in the Party’s Presidential Campaign Council.
“The purported list not only came as a complete surprise to the NWC and the Party’s leadership, but also contravened the principles and purposes of the arrangements that you and I had led towards the adoption of the Organogram of the PCC, and its principal officials.
