Convention: Kwara APC raises the alarm over fake delegates List

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state has raised the alarm that two different groups, led by some aggrieved members of the party in the state were compiling the fake list of delegates ahead of the Saturday national convention of the party in Abuja.

The party in a statement signed by its state publicity secretary, Sulyman Buhari said it had it on good authority that the decision to compile a fake list of delegates for the convention was reached at a meeting held on Tuesday in the house of a chieftain of the party in GRA, Ilorin.

This is just as a group of APC members, led by Alhaji Bashiru Bolarinwa, advised the convention committee to be alive to the antics of the outgoing Central Working Committee of the party at the national level to supplant the will of party members.

“The outgoing executive of the party at the national level brought us to this sorry state by programming our congresses to fail.

Why would you drop party nomination forms with the people that are contesting same elections? Where is the neutrality that can make the outcome of that congress credible and acceptable?”, Bolarinwa said in a statement on Wednesday in Ilorin.

The APC publicity secretary added in his statement that it was also aware that another group led by some Abuja based politicians had procured branded buses and banners, vest and Ankara to be used by the fake delegates for the convention.

The group party added, had even gone to the extent of making accommodation arrangement at Wuse area of Abuja for the fake delegates.

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The statement reads in part:”To show how unpopular they all are, the two groups have been fishing for people on the streets of Ilorin to use as delegates and begging them to follow them to Abuja with a promise that they would be handsomely paid on their returns.

“As a party, we are not bothered by the evil antics of those 3-months to elections politicians. But we believe we owe it as a duty to the leadership of our party at the national level to expose the evil machinations of these politicians whose only mission is obviously to disrupt the National Convention in Abuja with multiple delegates list as against the one officially sanctioned by the party.

“We like to reiterate for the umpteenth times that there is no faction in the Kwara State chapter of the APC.

The APC in Kwara state is one. Therefore, any group or groups laying claims to factionalisation are mere jokers and dreamers who have refused to wake up to the reality that they cannot put something on nothing and expect it to stand.”