Even if 192 members defect we’ll win 2023 – APC chairman Adamu boasts

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has said that even if members leave the party, the APC will win the 2023 presidential election.

This is sequel to the recent wave of dramas and defections in the ruling party and Adamu said that the party cannot force any member to stay or leave.

The APC national chairman stated this when he paid a visit to the Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, at the Government House in Lafia.

After the party’s presidential candidate Bola Tinubu revealed Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate, a Muslim, some party members had resigned their membership.

There have also been condemnations across the country, especially by Christians over the party’s decision to run a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket.

However, Adamu said while they would not want any member to leave the party, it would not stop anyone.

“We don’t want to lose any member but if a member wilfully wants to leave the party without recourse, we can’t force anybody to stay or leave the party.

“The issue of defection, there is a season for it in politics particularly in developing countries, and it is not new in Nigeria.

Anybody who is a member of this party is an adult and when an adult takes a decision, it’s either you convince him and if the decision is not favourable to you and he does his bidding, you leave him for God who decides everything”, the National Chairman stated.

While boasting of the party’s victory despite its Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election and the internal wrangling, Adamu said it would remain focused.

“As for winning elections, we are working to win. By the grace of God, we will win the elections. We are going to work as if it is the last election we are going to handle”, he asserted.