As Tinubu visits APC chairman Adamu, party sends workers away

The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is expected to visit the national headquarters of the party in Abuja on Wednesday.

An internal memo said the party’s members of staff were asked to take the day off ahead of Tinubu’s visit,

Top on the agenda of the visit, it was learnt, was to iron out the differences between Tinubu and the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, over composition of the presidential campaign council.

The list of presidential campaign has been held up following alleged disagreements between the two regarding key positions in the council.

Although Tinubu has not visited the party secretariat since his emergence as presidential candidate in June, it was gathered the mid-week visit would not have come at the right time to enable him to settle some festering crisis.

An internal memo dated 6th September 2022, issued by the Director, Administration and addressed to all staff titled “Notification of One-Day Off Duty” stated, “With reference to the above subject matter, all staff are hereby directed to go on one day off duty tomorrow 7th September, 2022.

“This directive has become necessary for crowd control during the visit of the Presidential Candidate of the Party.

“However, the under-listed category of staff will be on duty to render services for the day”.

Those expected to be in the office are members of the National Working Committee, departmental directors, some security personnel and few of the senior staff, according to the memo.