President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, met with the immediate past National Chairman and Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
  
 Both Adamu and Omisore, reportedly, resigned their positions early last week, ahead of scheduled National Caucus and National Executive Council (NEC) meetings, supposed to have been held on Monday, July 18 and Tuesday, July 19, respectively.
   
 President Tinubu, who is leader of the party, is granted a lot of leverage and influence within the ranks of the APC and is expected to determine a lot about the emergence of new party leaders.
    
The reason for the visit could not be officially confirmed, but it is believed to be connected with efforts to thaw crisis surrounding the party’s leadership.
    
When rumours about resignation of the duo emerged, Adamu reportedly said he was not going to make any comments until Tinubu, who was away in Nairobi, Kenya, returned to the country.
    
Although Adamu and Omisore have not openly announced their resignation, since it became news, the Acting National Chairman, who was Deputy National Chairman (North), Abubakar Kyari, while speaking to journalists after a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) in Abuja, said both leaders had resigned.
    
He said: “The NWC wishes to inform you of the resignation of the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and that of the National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore. And with this development, and according to the constitution of the APC, it is now incumbent on my humble self, Senator Abubakar Kyari, as Deputy National Chairman (North), to assume the office of acting National Chairman. And subsequently, also, the Deputy National Secretary, Festus Fuantar, will now assume the office of acting National Secretary.
   
“And with this development in the change of leadership, I will like to inform everybody here that the proposed National Caucus meeting slated for Tuesday, July 18, and the National Executive Committee meetings, slated for Wednesday, July 19 are, hereby, postponed. This postponement will not be indefinite but a new date will be communicated in the near future.”