Oyo APC factional group calls for fresh congress

Following the loss suffered by the party at the last general election, a factional group within the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Oyo State has called for the immediate dissolution of the party executives from the ward to the state level to pave way for proactive executives to run the party affairs.

In a statement issued by the group’s secretary, Mr Sulaimon Ramon, the group, Reformers noted that the party lost the election due to the imposition of candidates, lack of internal democracy, internal wrangling and high-handedness of the governor.

The group disagreed with the party chairmen at the local government level that the party lost the last election in the state as a result of overconfidence and electoral fraud.

The group condemns the call by the party chairmen at the local government level to make the party’s governorship candidate in the just concluded election, Mr Adebayo Adelabu the state party leader as well as the nominated state candidate for the ministerial slot.

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The statement reads: “We lost the election to the imposition of candidates, lack of internal democracy, internal wrangling, high handedness by the governor and the incompetence of the party executive under Chief Akin Oke.

“What Oyo State APC needs now is a college of tested and patriotic party leaders under the leadership of a tested leader with credibility, sound knowledge of politics, grassroots mobilisation, kindness and an army of loyal supporters. It is far from being a responsibility of a political greenhorn like Adelabu.”

It then called for the immediate dissolution of the party’s entire executive from the ward to the state to pave way for integration, harmonisation and a fresh democratic congress which will “usher in a pragmatic, populist and proactive executive.”