By Correspondent in Ilorin
Concerned All Progressives Congress (APC) youth stakeholders in Kwara state, comprising of youth organisations of the party in the three senatorial districts of the state have threatened not to allow forthcoming party’s membership registration to hold in the state.
They based their anger over the removal of the chairman, Caretaker Committee of the party, Bashir Bolarinwa.
Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Thursday, the APC youth stakeholders, who described the removal as illegal and undemocratic, called on the national caretaker committee of the party, led by Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state, to rescind the decision in the interest of the party in the state.
The spokesperson of the youth, Mallam Ahmed Ishowo, described the recent political developments in APC in the state as”sad”, adding that “as it is, is returning Kwara state to the bad old days of naked wielding of political power by few privileged to overrun the wishful will of the people.”
Ishowo, flanked by other youth leaders from the Kwara South and Kwara North senatorial districts, Mr. Olawale Adegboye and Mallam Adamu Abdullahi, respectively, said that the removal of Bolarinwa was a move to return the state to dark days of political self seeking ambitions.”
The APC youth said that the suspension and subsequent removal of Bolarinwa from office on January 13, 2021, was without any prior and properly instituted allegation against him, in accordance to the party’s Constitution.
He added that the Governor of the state,Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, who allegedly claimed he could not work with Bolarinwa, recently affirmed his chairmanship of the party.
“It is now glaring to every Kwaran of good conscience, irrespective of ethnicity, religious inclination, political affiliation and creed that “OUR LOCAL DEMOCRACY IS BACK IN GRAVE DANGER”!.
“It is sad that we are at the verge of deviation from our long walk to a politically freed Kwara and a highway leading to progress. WE ARE NOW ON A JOURNEY TO THE DIRECTION OF AN ABYSS OF ANARCHY!
“We wish to let the whole nation know that we find ourselves in a situation where the “soul of our collective struggle”, proudly christened as ” O TO GE” (Enough is Enough) is being sacrificed in the most machevillan manner.
“It is being done on the altar of politics of selfish interest and desire for more power by a handful few individuals and their collaborators in the corridors of power.
He said APC youths in the state would not a situation where by some individuals, who by providence and our collective sacrifice, occupy enviable positions wre exhibiting sheer disregard for known and acceptable norms and tenets of intra party democracy.
According to him, such persons embarked their mission in a bid to foist one of their own upon Kwara state, a state of more than 3 million inhabitants and a party populated by people of substance who chose to take their destiny and that of Kwara state in their own hands.
Ishowo noted that these people he referred to had resorted to crookedly effect the most vicious kind of political coup via replacing void of due process, the Caretaker leadership of Kwara state.
” This is anything but moral and an affront to the sensibilities of common APC members in our dear Kwara state,”he added.
The concerned APC youth stakeholders therefore appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Caretaker Committee of the party, headed by Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state, to address alleged injustice, “and save Kwara state from being thrown into an abyss of anarchy, stressing that ” a stitch in time saves nine.”
“Is it possible to suspend a man without his consent and consequently appoint and swear in another Caretaker Chairman to replace one who is yet to be issued with a letter of suspension or a letter terminating his appointment?” he said.
