Kwara: APC Crisis Worsens As Secretary Rejects Registration Official

There seems to be no solution in sight to the imbroglio rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara as the crisis that hits the party in the state took another unpalatable turn on Monday, Ekohotblog reports.

The impasse took another dimension as Samuel Isa, the Organising Secretary of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State, rejects officials for the membership registration exercise in the state.

Isa, in a statement on Monday in Ilorin, described the selection of the 5,000 officials as illegal.

He disclosed that he was the only one who’s the right and power to select and recruit registration officials for the exercise.

He questioned Abdullahi Samari, a Deputy Chairman in the committee, for addressing the media on the exercise, calling his action an aberration.

The statement said in part: “If he addressed the media as a Caretaker Deputy Chairman, he did so without the authorisation of the rest of the majority members of the State Executive Committee.

“If he addressed the media as the State Caretaker Chairman, he did so illegally.

“It is a fact that you cannot put something on nothing and expect it to stand.

“An illegal arrangement will only beget an illegal outcome. At the fullest of time, he will answer to that aberration,” Isa said.

“I am the State Organising Secretary of the APC in Kwara State, the issue of party registration and organisation of same should by law be my beat.

“I am supposed to oversee the process from start to finish. But I was neither aware of the selection process nor partook in the selection proper.

“If they alleged that they suspended our lawful Caretaker Chairman, Hon. Bashir Bolarinwa, did they also suspend or remove me too to have sidestepped my office?

“As far as I know in my capacity as the substantive Organising Secretary, at least ten properly inaugurated substantive Chairmen of the LGA out of the 16 LGAs aren’t aware of the processes leading to the jankara selection of registration officials.

“I can also confirm authoritatively that over 114 ward chairmen and their executives out of a total of 193 Ward Chairmen were never carried along.”

So, where did they get the officials? It is possible that the Senator John Danboyi-led team would come all the way from Nasarawa and Edo State without consulting with the party structure here in Kwara State?

” Party registration all over the world is about people, more people and a lot more people.

“It is never a thing for the closet, so why should it be in secrecy if there’s no more to it?

“All people of good conscience should by now know that it is not about responsible party politics, it is not about the majority.”