APC’s Adamu and the Burden of Leadership  – THISDAYLIVE

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Olusegun Adefeko

when Senator Abdullahi Adamu emerged as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress during its March 2022 national convention, the party was approaching the lowest point in its eight-year history.  From a leadership crisis that lasted almost two years to backlashes from the public for some of its government’s policies, the party had lost substantial ground from the enviable and popular position that saw it win Nigeria’s last two presidential elections.

With the next election less than a year away, the party needed to get the question of its leadership right. It required a leader who could steady its ship, prevent it from disintegrating, and position it for regaining the grounds it had lost. And that’s what it got in Senator Adamu.

If the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. that “a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus” are anything to go by, then Adamu’s emergence is one testament…



Source: Thisday Newspaper