The acting caretaker chairman of the ruling All progressive congress (APC), Governor Abubakar Bello, is under intense pressure to prevent an alleged imposition of Senator Abdullahi Adamu as the national chairman of the party during the national convention of the party billed to hold on the 26th of this month.

The development may have informed the resolve by Bello to assure party faithful of a level playing field for aspirants angling for party positions during the national convention of the party.

Sources told The Guardian that among those piling pressure on Bello are governors of the party who were of the view that Adamu maybe a mole for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Those opposed to Adamu argued that having Adamu as chairman of the party would not only de -market the APC but also safely place it in the hands of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who have never hidden his disdain for the president Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

It was learnt that stakeholders of the party from the north have counselled Bello to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari, being a major beneficiary of the formation of the APC, to ensure that there is a level-playing ground for all the aspirants to the position of the National chairmanship position of the party, without any measure of imposition.

“Even if there will be need for a consensus candidate to be presented at the March 26, 2022 National Convention, preferences or choices , should made by the majority of stakeholders , allowing room for the best candidate, who must be a pioneer member of the APC, with widespread acceptability across board,” a source said.

“If a wrong candidate is forcefully imposed on the party, it will a licence to the erosion of the legacies that the party may have earned over the last 8 years. As such a move may structurally destroy the fortunes of the party , ahead of the 2023 Presidential & General Elections.

“It will therefore be a thing of monumental shock , if President Muhammadu Buhari, as it being , pursues the project of imposing Senator Abdullahi Adamu, as the next National Chairman of the APC.

“If this is done, then, President Muhammadu Buhari, intends to leave, is to intentionally, whittle down, in several ways than one, redefine the good legacies, that had earned him a place in the 2015 and 2019 electoral processes ,through which he rode to power and ultimately, handing over the APC party structures to a staunch supporter of the aborted 3rd Term Agenda Campaign bid of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, which the north vehemently fought against in the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidency.”