Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State have decamped from the ruling party and teamed up to form a new political association described as the Third Force in the political equation in the state.
The aggrieved APC members, who included senatorial chairman, ward chairmen, local government chairmen, women leaders, youth leaders, as well as APC party stalwarts across all the 16 local government areas, among others, in IIorin on Saturday, accused the state governor and his loyalists in the party of alleged disenfranchisement in the recent membership registration and revalidation exercise.
Speaking on behalf of the decampees, the former state APC senatorial chairman for Kwara Central, Mallam Abdulfatai Abdulrahman, said that, “It is impossible to achieve the developmental goals we are aiming for Kwarans amid chaotic situation we found ourselves in Kwara APC,” adding that the new party will be unveiled in due course as soon as possible.
The people, who tore their APC membership cards and burnt the party symbol of brooms, said that the plot to allegedly marginalize them was all about 2023 political permutations.
“As you are all aware, Kwara APC has been enmeshed in one crisis or the other almost immediately after the party’s primary, stretching into the campaign period and lingering up to date.