In Kwara, Over 20,000 APC Members Renounce Party
On Saturday, over 20,000 All Progressives Congress (APC) card-carrying members in Kwara State condemned the party.
“The new party would be unveiled in due course as soon as possible,” Abdulfatai Abdulrahman, APC Kwara Central Senatorial Chairman, told reporters at the unveiling of a new political platform dubbed “The Third Force” in Ilorin.
He said the lingering crisis in the APC in the state has reached its climax, adding, “As you are all aware, Kwara state APC has been enmeshed in one crisis or the other almost immediately after the party’s primary, stretching into the campaign period and lingering up to date.”
Abdulfatai lamented that “It is disheartening, shameful and preposterous that Kwara APC, cannot manage its success even at halftime of its tenure in the saddle of governance in the state.
“The intra party crisis has been going on for long and unabated. The struggle for the soul of the party which cannot be divorced from the 2023 political ambitions has been the root cause of the lingering internal squabbles.”
The hopes and expectations of party members to realize the benefits of their collective labor have been crushed, according to Abdulfatai, due to the party’s self-inflicted and unnecessary crisis.
The situation reached a head with the recently ended APC membership revalidation and registration in the state, which was marred by purposeful policies and grand orchestration to deregister and disenfranchise selected members of the party, according to the spokesman.
Despite many sources calling the notice of Senator John Danboi’s team and the party’s national secretariat to the perfidious and glaring aberration of the registration procedure, he claimed that nothing was done to rectify the matter.
He declared that “It is impossible to achieve the developmental goals we are aiming for Kwarans in the midst of the chaotic situation we found ourselves in Kwara APC.”
Abdulfatai, further stated that, the deliberate inaction to address the lingering crisis in Kwara APC, has become obvious to all discerning minds that the agenda to deregister and refusal to revalidate thousands of members across the state, was a grand plot that has the backing of the national caretaker committee of the party.
