Adamu, Kyari resign from Senate

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has resigned as senator representing Nasarawa West Senatorial District. 

Also, the party’s newly-elected Deputy National Chairman (North), Abubakar Kyari, has quit his position as the lawmaker representing Borno North District. 

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The lawmakers announced their resignations in separate letters read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan during plenary on Tuesday. 

Adamu and Kyari emerged APC National Working Committee members at the party’s March 26 convention in Abuja. 

Senator Adamu, before his resignation, chaired the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, while Kyari was the chairman of the Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT).