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I’m A Northerner, So I Will Naturally Support A Northerner For Presidency- Abdullahi Adamu
A former chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu has defended his support for a former president of the Nigerian senate, Ahmed Lawan to emerge as the presidential candidate of the party last year.
When asked in an interview about why he wanted Senator Ahmed Lawan as the party’s candidate during its convention in Abuja, Adamu said that “The party chairman has a role, but with a ruling party, I could not take it on myself to float Ahmed Lawan’s name.”
Adamu stressed that he took responsibility as the party chairman, but that “nobody with maturity in politics and governance will say that Abdullahi Adamu, as the chairman of the party, would just get up and say this is my presidential candidate. It doesn’t add up.
“Of course, there were processes. I don’t want to go back on that. What I detested about this whole setting was that people who wanted to win favours with President Ahmed Bola Tinubu continued saying there was cold war between me and him and making so much capital out of it.”
The former APC chairman stated that he is an established person right from root, and from birth, adding that he came from a royal family, saying that “I am proud of it.”
“I was born at a time when there was a northern Nigeria. I was brought into its values even though I worked mainly in the private sector. I saw myself first and foremost as a northerner in Nigeria and I have no apologies to anybody on this.
“But times are changing, if you want to take a count of people with the same feeling, attitude, commitment and loyalty to the North, you would have a problem.
“But go down South, especially the South West, and you would see that people are not ashamed of beating their chests and telling you who they are and where they come from and what they stand for. Go to the East, till today, we are losing lives in the East for what they believe in, not here,” he said
He stated that the reason he had no regret is that only what God wills will happen, and that God has made Bola Ahmed Tinubu the president of the country.
“The moment he won in the convention, I led the National Working Committee to his residence to congratulate him and to give him assurance that we would stand head and shoulders with him to work for the success of the party; and we did.
“No matter what anybody will say about my relationship with Tinubu, the fact remains that it was under my leadership that the APC won the election. I like Tinubu for one thing, when I last saw him after my resignation, he referred to himself as “this bouncing baby boy delivered by you.” And he made my day,” he said.
On why he resigned as the APC National Chairman, he said, “Politics is an amalgamation of actions and reactions and you have to find your bearing in them.
“I felt I had played that part of leadership. I was a minister in this country. I was also a governor and secretary of Board of Trustees of a ruling party. I led this party called the APC to victory and delivered a whole new government to succeed Buhari.
“President Buhari nominated me before the governors and I went to the convention and was elected. I remain ever grateful to him and the Almighty God for ensuring that I succeeded.”
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