The national leadership of the All Progressives Party (APC), has handed over the party's structure in Kwara State to the immediate past governor of the state, Dr Bukola Saraki.

This was in tandem with the demand made by the state governor, Alh Abdulfatah Ahmed when APC's leaders came to Ilorin to woo him and members of the new PDP into their party.

Ahmed had told his visitors that Kwara had a winning political machinery in place which in the past four decades had dictated the political tune of the state and that Saraki was the state's political leader.

The interim state chairman of APC in the state, Rev. Bunmi Olusona made this known in Ilorin, the state capital yesterday at a news conference.

"Although we are yet to confirm or be fully briefed by the national headquarters of our party that Senator Saraki has been given a lifeline by handing over the APC structure in Kwara to him, but to this effect we have already written an official letter to the national headquarters of our party detailing our position on the issue,"he stated.

Olusona, however, described as frustrating the confirmation of the development by the APC's interim national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

He quoted Mohammed to have told the party's fact finding delegation that "already the party structure which we laboured  hard to build had been ceded to Saraki and his group and that there was nothing anybody could do except what Saraki wishes for our people."

He added that any aggrieved member had a choice of either leaving the party or accept the arrangement.

Olusona said that it was in an effort to ensure the advancement of the party that an 8-man Interim Executive Committee was appointed last weekend to oversee its affairs.