Muiz Banire, SAN, a former legal adviser to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, may have been forced to resign.
Banire stated this during an interview session on Monday.
His remarks came just hours after Senator Abubakar Kyari was elected APC National Chairman and announced Adamu and Omisore’s resignation as party national officers.
Banire described the duo’s resignation as an unusual situation that had to be fueled by circumstances that are no longer apparent to people.
“I am not sure the resignation could have been voluntary, in my opinion; I probably believe that maybe the pressure of other colleagues forced them to tender their resignation,” he said.
“So, it is not unlikely that it is because of such issues that have been in the public eye for some time now; perhaps it is reached its peak now and can not be absorbed again.” They probably reacted.
“I have been reading Mr Lukman Saliu for a while; he is been raising a lot of issues, particularly those concerning party maladministration, misappropriation of funds, and so on.”
“Well, that could be part of it because I know in NWC sometimes those are usually issues that confront or challenge the body,” he explained.
According to the former APC legal adviser, the duo’s resignation was an unusual situation that had to have been brought about by certain circumstances that are no longer apparent to people.
Banire stated that the National Working Committee and the National Executive Council were well aware of everything that had occurred prior to the resignation.
Meanwhile, Banire, who served as a Commissioner in Lagos State when President Bola Tinubu was governor, has cleared the President of any involvement in the APC’s current leadership crisis.
He stated that Tinubu had nothing to gain by removing the party’s Chairman, even if he did not initially support him for President, and that Adamu’s resignation was most likely the result of disgruntled members of the NWC.