Abubakar Kyari emerges as new APC national chairman…replaces Abdullahi Adamu

With yesterday resignation of Abdullahi Adamu as national chairman of the ruling APC, the Deputy National Chairman (North), Abubakar Kyari will emerge as the substantive and new National Chairman of the party.

A member of the APC National Working Committee (NWC) who spoke to journalists on Monday morning said the NWC has summoned an emergency meeting at 12noon to ratify Kyari’s elevation.

In a related development,, the Southeast is jostling for the position of APC National Secretary which also became vacant following the resignation of Iyiola Omisore.

The chairmanship position of the APC is zoned to the North. The former chairman, Adamu, hails from Nasarawa State where he was governor between 1999 and 2007. He was also a one time Senator of the federal republic of Nigeria.

“According to our party’s constitution, the position of the chairman will remain in the North and the most senior NWC member from the North naturally steps in if there is a vacuum.

So, our Deputy National Chairman, North will be ratified as the new chairman when we meet today,” our source who pleaded anonymity, said.

Senator Abubakar Kyari, the new APC National Chairman was born on January 1, 1960 to late Brigadier Abba Kyari, former military administrator of North Central State from 1967 to 1975 and was educated in both Nigeria and United States of America.

He obtained a Bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in Economics from the University of Tennessee, in 1986 and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with emphasis on Finance from Webster University, St. Louis Missouri, USA in 1989.

He was elected Senator in 2015 representing Borno North Senatorial zone on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.