By David Lawani
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has disowned the statement credited to the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu over a purported draft message addressed to the Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed over the perceived infighting in the constitution of the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC.

It will be recalled that Simon Lalong, the party’s Director General had earlier said the inability of the PCC to kick off its peace walk and prayers was due to the need to make the campaign council more accommodating for all.

He said: ” However, due to the expansion of the list to accommodate more stakeholders and interests within the APC family, we have decided to adjust the timetable of these activities in order to ensure everyone is on board before activities officially commence. Consequently, the activities earlier announced for the 28th of September will no longer hold.

“Recall that we had earlier earmarked a peace walk and prayers for Wednesday, September 28, 2022, to officially kick off our campaigns for the 2023 Presidential Elections. We had also announced that the members of the Campaign Council report at the Campaign Headquarters on that day to collect their letters of appointments”, the governor stated.

But in a twist, Barr. Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary All Progressives Congress (APC) in an attempt to douse the tension stated in a statement that the said draft letter flying around from the national chairman was unsigned and such could not have been accepted as the party is concerned about facing the issues in the country.

According to him: ” Our attention has been drawn to a “DRAFT” letter in circulation purportedly written by His Excellency, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the National Chairman of our great Party, addressed to His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of our great Party, expressing dissatisfaction over the recently released list of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

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“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.

” 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”, he noted.