Former Governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has been declared the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), he was returned unopposed on Saturday at the party’s national convention held at Eagle Square in Abuja.
Adamu becomes the ruling party’s national chairman after almost 2 years that the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) was dissolved.
Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State announced Adamu as the winner of the contest after he was endorsed by party members and leaders at the convention via a voice vote.
He had gone into the election as the consensus candidate following the withdrawal of his co-contenders from the contest.
Earlier, the party had released its unity list which named the lawmaker as its National Chairman.
The National Working Committee is as follows:
- Abdullahi Adamu – National Chairman
- Abubakar Kyari – Deputy National Chairman (North)
- Ema Enaukwu – Deputy National Chairman (South)
- Otunba Iyiola Omisore – National Secretary
- Festus Fuanter – Deputy National Secretary
- Muhazu Bawa Rijau – National Vice Chairman (North Central)
- Mustapha Salihu – National Vice Chairman (North East)
- Salihu Lukman – National Vice Chairman (North West)
- Ijeoma Arodiogwu – National Vice Chairman (South East)
- Victor Giadom – National Vice Chairman (South South)
- D.I Kekemeke – National Vice Chairman (South West)
- Ahmed El-Marzuk – National Legal Adviser
- Uguru Matthew Ofoke – National Treasurer
- Bashir Usman Gumel – National Financial Secretary
- Suleiman M Argungun – National Organising Secretary
