Aliyu Wammako, an All Progressive Congress’ senator representing Sokoto North has been appointed chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, following the removal of Senator Abdullahi Adamu, Nasarawa West.

The removal was announced in a letter read by the presiding officer, Ike Ekweremadu, shortly before the end of the plenary on Wednesday.

The letter signed by the Public Relations Officer of the forum noted that Mr Adamu was removed for “financial mismanagement and other related matters.”

“This is to inform the Senate that the majority signatories of members of the Northern Senators Forum. We have removed Sen. Abdullahi Adams as chairman of the Northern Senators Forum for financial mismanagement and misadministration.

“We announce his replacement with Senator Aliyu Wamakko immediately. Find the attached names and signatories of members,” the letter reads.

While giving insight into why Mr Adamu was sacked, Shehu Sani a senator representing Kaduna Central, said about N70 million belonging to the group was claimed to have been carted away by monkeys in a farm house.

However, this is coming after Mr Adamu had accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of becoming a national nuisance by his continued condemnation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

Mr Adamu, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, on Monday, said Mr Obasanjo would have been in jail if Mr Buhari was not selective in his anti-corruption war.

He stated that every government had its challenges and that President Buhari inherited the rot left behind by previous administrations, including that of Mr Obasanjo.

He added that Mr Buhari’s challenges could not be an exception.

He said: “Chief Obasanjo said that President Buhari is selective in his anti-corruption war.

“I agree with him because if the president were not selective, Chief Obasanjo himself would be in the dock today on trial on charges of corruption during his third term gambit in the national assembly in 2006.

“As a friend, I wish to advise the former president to pull back from the dangerous path of rubbishing all presidents that came into office after him. Bringing everyone down is not a patriotic duty.

“I fear that if he continues along this path, he would, sooner than later, overreach himself and begin the inevitable descent into national nuisance and irrelevance.

“That would be a self-inflicted wound and a personal tragedy,” Senator Adamu said.

Obasanjo had in an open letter advised President Buhari not to seek a second term.