Adamu Did Not Endorse Ladan – AASG

The leadership of Amalgamated All Progressives Congress (APC) Support Groups (AASG) has faulted viral videos and statements on social media platforms alluding that the APC national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu,  had endorsed Dr. Nasiru Ladan Mohammed as director general of the  AASG.

According to a statement signed yesterday in Abuja by Hajiya Maryam Yunusa Danjaki, the deputy director general (stakeholders engagement),  Hon. Adeyemi Olusayo, the national secretary, and made available by Musa Otigba, the North Central coordinator of the AASG, the purported endorsement   report is not only false and misleading, but also an attempt to distract the management of AASG led by the director general, Engr. (Dr.) Kailani Mohammed and his deputy, Hajiya Maryam Yunusa Danjaki, from performing the onerous task of repositioning the AASG.

The statement said while it is true that the former DG, Dr. Nasiru Ladan Mohammed, led some support groups’ leaders to the office of the national chairman on Thursday and the chairman did mention in his statement during the meeting that as far as the APC under his leadership was concerned,  they had only one support group and that’s the Amalgamated APC Support Groups,  some mischief makers are now misinterpreting the chairman’s statement as endorsement of Ladan as director general of the AASG.

“We wish to state categorically and emphatically that whatever statement the chairman may have made during that meeting must have come out of Dr. Ladan’s misrepresentation of fact on the true position of the leadership of AASG.

“To set the records straight, it is not the party that appoints the DG of AASG. The management of AASG had, through a unanimous decision,  appointed and later sacked Dr. Ladan Mohammed before the general elections and he has since then ceased to be the DG. And the party was duly informed of the development,” the statement said.

It added that to clear his doubts,  a team of directors of AASG had already been delegated to meet with the party leadership to convey the message of Dr. Ladan’s removal, and urged all support groups leaders and members to disregard the statement by Dr. Ladan and his group to avoid tension among members when they are supposed to be praying for president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his upcoming swearing in ceremony on May 29, 2023. “The Amalgamated APC Support Groups has only one leadership, and that is Engr.( Dr.) Kailani Mohammed, assisted by her deputy DG,  Hajiya Maryam Yunusa Danjaki, and the rest of the directorates. Anyone who does business with Dr. Nasiru Ladan Mohammed, on behalf of AASG, does so at his, or her own risk,” the statement added.