Kwara APC crisis: Lai Mohammed, Gbemi Saraki move against Gov AbdulRazaq over caretaker list

Date: 2020-12-11

Two serving ministers from Kwara State; Lai Mohammed and Gbemisola Saraki and other stakeholders in All Progressives Congress (APC) have moved against Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq's efforts to stop Hon Bashir Bolarinwa from being recognised as the Chairman of the state caretaker committee, describing the actions as illegal, illogical and unacceptable.

Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, a Chieftain of the party addressed the press conference evening in Ilorin flanked by the representatives of Minister of State for Transportation Senator Gbemisola Saraki, the state legal adviser of the party, Barrister Oladimeji Mustapha, that of Alhaji Lai Mohammed Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Ayo Obisesan.

Among the factions in the fractured APC, only the representative of Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRasaq was absent at the press conference.

Akogun Oyedepo at the time of press conference expressed concern that Governor AbdulRazaq had not invited Hon Bashir Bolarinwa for the swearing-in ceremony that will take place in Abuja tomorrow, Tuesday.

He said: "The information at our disposal is that Governor AbdulRazaq has gone to the national headquarters of the party to urge the national caretaker committee to exempt Bolarinwa from the swearing-in ceremony on the ground that Kwara executive of 2018 was not a product of a congress.

"The weather-beaten claim of this group is that the Kwara State executive under Bolarinwa is a product of a Congress. Nothing is farther from the truth."

Oyedepo who said members of other groups in the party were not carried along by the governor in his current decision despite the ongoing peace parley among them said: "The state executive committee of the party established in 2018 under Bolarinwa chairmanship was duly constituted by members of the party including the governor.

"And when that executive was challenged by Alhaji Balogun Fulani, the erstwhile chairman of the party that later defected to PDP, he failed up to the Supreme Court of Nigeria which decision was given on 19th April 2019.

That decision has put to rest the illegality claim on the composition of the state executive committee of the party in Kwara State.

"Based on the said Supreme Court decision, it will be illegal, illogical and certainly unacceptable to the base exclusion of Kwara State on the national policy of the party now.

He noted that "the efficiency of our structure and high tolerance of party members accounted for APC 100 per cent score in the general election of 2019. We, therefore, urge all powers in APC not to tamper with the smooth operation of a winning team."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Nurudeen Muhammed     Local Government     Oniye     Charcoal     Turaki Of Ilorin     Millennium Development Goals     Agbarigidoma     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Tunde Oyawoye     Lanre Aremu     Crystal Corner Shops     Shehu Adaramaja     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Tafida Of Kaiama     Hussein Olokooba     Ojo Fadumila     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Marufat Oladosu     KWATMA     Quranic Recitation Competition     Sunday Otokiti     Illyasu Abdullahi     Musbau A. Akanji     Adisa Logun     Ado Bayero     Matthew Babaoye     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Sarah Alade     Kale Bayero     Daud Adeshola     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Ajakaye     Idowu Laro     Ita-Ore     Ibrahim Bio     ASKOMP     Hassanat Bello     Lola Olabayo     Okoolowo     Lukman Adeloyin     Computer Based Test     Olaitan Buraimoh     Fatimat Saliu     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Kale Belgore     Adeleke Ogungbe     Funmilayo Oniwa     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Baruba     Ridwan Agboola     Tosin Saraki     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Titus Ashaolu     Orisa Bridge     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Fola Consultant     Ope Saraki     Christopher Odetunde     Kale Ayo     Nigeria Customs Service     Galland Marcias     Abubakar Atiku     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Shola Odetundun     Memunat Monsuma     Oladimeji Thompson     Muritala Awodun     Ibrahim Mohammed     Ayegbeni     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Ilorin Central Mosque     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     TIC     Bond    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Musa Aibinu     Sabo-Oke     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Kunle Akogun     Tunde Saad     National Party Of Nigeria     Moro     Bankole Omisore     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     CACOVID Palliatives     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Oni Adebayo     Balogun Gambari     Kawu     Binta Abubakar-Mora     KWAFFA     Millennium Development Goals     Kwara 2015     Ilorin Metro Park     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Garba Ado Sanni     Unicontinental Construction Company     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Busari Alabi Alausa     Babaita     Aminu Ado Bayero     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Adijat Adebiyi     Olokoba     Sayomi     Binta Abubakar Mora     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Saka Saadu     Ridwan Agboola     Turaki     Razaq Atunwa     Olabode George Towoju     Ahman Pategi University     Saheed Akinwumi     Frootify     School Of Nursing     Vasolar     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Dunmade     Zulu Gambari     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Baboko Primary School     Amos Sayo     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     BIR     Magaji Erubu     Nigerian Correctional Service     Kwara Polytechnic     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Sa\'adu Salahu     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Kassim Babamale     Kolawole Akande     Shettima     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Quranic Recitation Competition     N-Power     Alaaya     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     NIRSAL     Ubandoma     NULGE     Labour Party     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Babata     UNIFEMGA     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Illyasu Abdullahi