Senator Abdullahi Adamu has emerged as the new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress.
Adamu was pronounced the National Chairman late on Saturday at the 2022 National Convention of the party in Abuja.
The preferred choice of President Muhammadu Buhari emerged as the consensus candidate of the party after six other aspirants stepped down.
Before the commencement of the convention on Saturday, former Governor George Akume of Benue State had revealed that six of the APC Chairmanship aspirants had withdrawn from the race.
Akume, the Minister of Special Duties, was a frontrunner in the chairmanship race before the reported endorsement of Adamu by President Buhari.
Akume made the revelation in a letter addressed to the APC Election Sub-Committee, National Secretariat, Abuja.
Adamu was therefore declared winner at the convention after a voice vote in which the “ayes” had it.
The convention was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
Others present were the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan; Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; APC governors; National Leader of the party and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and other party members and delegates.