“The National Chairman of our great party, the All Progressives Congress(APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has resigned from his position, effective immediately, as confirmed by multiple sources,” Ahmad wrote.

Sources within the party however maintained that Ganduje’s decision might not be unconnected to the need to pacify members of the party who have overtime maintained that one of them should step in to complete the tenure of the former chairman, Adamu Abdullahi.

“A think the exit might be due to the intense pressure on our former chairman to give way and allow a member from the NorthCentral to complete Alhaji Abdullahi’s tenure,” the source who is a member of the national working committee of the APC who does not wish to be named said.

The source further added that the move was aimed at giving party members from that region the needed confidence and “to carry them along since the North West, where Ganduje comes from has been very taken care of in terms of appointments and distribution of government positions.

“Don’t forget that while the NorthWest secured the position of deputy senate president and that of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the NorthCentral has not been adequately compensated by the party for their support for the APC.”

While it is believed that one of the national vice chairmen of the party would step into the shoes of the former Kano governor but sources said a substantive chairman is expected to emerge at the national convention of the party scheduled for December.