The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC in Kwara state has taken a new dimension as Nigeria’s minister of Information, Lai Mohammed has drawn the battle line against the state governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.
Mohammed, in a fiery speech on Saturday while inaugurating a factional APC secretariat in Illorin, branded Abdulrazaq a ‘one chance governor’. He disclosed that the recently concluded registration exercise conducted for members in the state was not genuine in that it did not capture every member of the party.
Mohammed said, “The recently concluded membership registration exercise conducted in the state is a charade as most members of the party were not given the opportunity to register as the registration documents were not made available to them.”
“When we observed this, myself and two former governorship aspirants, Prof Oba AbdulRaheem and Alhaji Tajudeen Audu, went to the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, and he assured us that a fresh registration would be done for party members in Kwara.”
“We didn’t know him before, he has no campaign office. The battle line is now drawn; without you, members, there would be no APC in the state. I want to assure you all that no party congress will hold in Kwara State until the fresh registration/revalidation exercise is conducted for all APC members in Kwara State.”
POLITICS NIGERIA gathered that the APC factions in Kwara appear evenly balanced with the Integrity Group having two ministers, Mohammed and Gbemisola Saraki, some House of Reps members and party leaders in the state, while Abdulrazaq still has the loyalty of all the state senators and majority of state Assembly members.
