The Chairman, Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Hope Uzodimma, has said that Senator Abdullahi Adamu and Senator Iyiola Omisore voluntarily resigned from their positions as All Progressives Congress (APC)’s National Chairman and National Secretary respectively.
Uzodimma said this on Wednesday night after the APC governors held a closed-door meeting.
The Imo state governor of denied rumour of a rift within the party, saying the APC governors fully backed Adamu and Omisore’s decisions to resign.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja, Uzodimma said, “I am aware some of you are anxious to know what is going on in our party and the country. We deliberated on so many issues that have to do with our party, the APC.
“You must have heard of the resignation of the National Chairman of our party and the National Secretary of the party. Those are voluntary actions that have been taken with due respect to our national chairman and our secretary.
“We commended the wisdom in what they have done and they served us well in the party, we are happy with the services and the party is united, there is no crisis in the party. They are happy; we also are happy. So, we are in support of their actions and they would continue to be commended, respected, and recognised for the services they have rendered to our great party.
“Their resignations have also been accepted by the leadership of the party. There is now an acting chairman and acting Secretary.”
Meanwhile, the PGF’s meeting held at the Imo State Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro.
Present at the meeting were Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state; Umar Bago (Niger); Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi); Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq (Kwara); Acting Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Ayedatiwa; Fr. Hyacinth Alia (Benue), Uba Sani (Kaduna); Mai Mala Buni (Yobe); and Dikko Radda (Katsina).
The APC governors apologised to Nigerians for the hardship occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy.
“I decided to deal with the controversial social media posting of our upcoming FAAC. We are aware that the result of the removal of the fuel subsidy will increase the volume of money that would be received by us during the Federation Allocation Account meeting. We are working with the Federal government to ensure that the proceeds of that FAAC will be utilised in a manner that the citizens of the country are happy, the Labour happy and we also the practitioners happy. The economy of the country would be protected. So what has happened is something that we should be happy about.
“The current hardship occasioned by the price increase on both food, Petroleum products, and cost of living is being addressed. The sub-national government is working with the Federal Government and tomorrow (Thursday), there would be National Executive Council to discuss further that,” Uzodimma said.
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