All Progressives Congress (APC) National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, on Thursday distanced the party from a letter accusing Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, of breaking the agreement about the composition of campaign council members.
APC National Chairman Abdullahi Adamu allegedly accused Tinubu of naming members of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council without the National Working Committee’s consent in a letter that was claimed to have been leaked early on Thursday.
Adamu urged the quick retraction of the presidential campaign council list, stressing that any indication of dissension inside the party would undermine the campaign’s integrity and cause unwarranted worry among party supporters nationwide.
The APC spokesman, however, said in a statement that Adamu was not the author of the letter and that the party would not be derailed by its critics.
Morka said, “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.”