By Damilare Adeleye
Alhaji Abdulahi Adamu, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has denounced the appointment of the party’s principal officers announced by the Senate and the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Adamu said the list of new principal officers announced by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and the House Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, did not emanate from the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).
Adamu, a former senator, stated this during a meeting with APC governors on Tuesday at the National Secretariat of the party.
The Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF), the umbrella body of all APC governors, Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, led the governors to the meeting.
Those announced includes:
Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, Senate Majority Leader; David Umahi, Deputy Majority Leader;
Mohammed Ali Ndume, Senate Majority Whip;
Lola Ashiru, Deputy Majority Whip.
Similarly, the Minority Leadership Of the 10th Senate was also Announced as follows; Simon Mwadkon, Senate Minority Leader;
Oyewumi Olalere, Senate, Deputy Minority
Leader;Darlington Nwokocha, Senate Minority Whip; Rufai Hanga, Senate Deputy Minority Whip.