Protests Hit APC Congresses in Kwara, Lagos, Imo, Osun, A’Ibom, Delta, Others

*Keyamo, Ogboru, Ojougboh’s supporters shun congress in Delta*Okorocha, Ararume, Abe’s factions boycott exercise in Imo, Rivers

However, states such as Edo, Katsina, Jigawa, Niger, Ogun, and others elected their ward leaders through a consensus arrangement as recommended by the national secretariat of the party. One person was killed in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, during the ward congress held across the 177 wards in the state.

In Akwa Ibom State, the supporters of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, accused the Secretary of the National Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC, Senator John Akpanudoedehe of manipulating the exercise. The bonfire was set outside the party office, causing heavy gridlock along the major access road outside the Uyo metropolis.

The crisis rocking the Kwara State chapter of the ruling APC deepened yesterday as the two leading factions in the party embarked on separate congresses to elect their ward executives at the 193 wards in the state. A loyalist of the minister and former Osun State Assembly Speaker, Hon. Najeem Salam, who was at Ward 4, Ejigbo, alleged that the executives were imposed, and not elected.

However, the supporters of the state Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, held the ward congress in all the 27 local government areas of the state in a peaceful atmosphere. Also in Ado Ekiti Ward 08, where the Deputy Governor, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, and the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, hailed from, the exercise was marred with violence as anti- and pro- Fayemi groups engaged in a fight.

“The police rushed to the area and by the time we got there, the person had been moved to the hospital.Abutu stated that his men and officers had begun an investigation into the matter, while clarifying that no arrest had been made as at press time. But amidst the reports that parallel ward congresses were conducted in the state, the party’s Caretaker Committee Chairman, Alhaji Tunde Balogun, has debunked the report even as he maintained that members of the party adopted a consensus arrangement to elect the 37 executive members in each of the 245 wards across the 20 local governments and 37 development councils in the state.

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