Protests mar Kwara PDP congress

Date: 2016-05-12

PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state congress in Kwara state was characterized with protests by aggrieved party members.

While a group wanted the incumbent executive of the party led by Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo to return unopposed, another group preferred voting to elect new leadership for the party.

The situation led to unnecessary delay in accreditation of delegates. The irreconcilable differences led to non accreditation of delegates of delegates from Kwara central zone in the exercise that lasted till wee hours of Wednesday.

Disenchanted members of the party led by Senator Ayinla Folorunsho, vowed to resist affirmation being introduced by the incumbent state executive committee of the party.

They accused the state chairman of the party, Iyiola Oyedepo, of a plan to scuttle the process of injecting new blood into the executive of the party with his insistence affirmation instead of congress as directed by the national body of the party.

Addressing reporters Wednesday in Ilorin, Folorunsho warned that angry members of the party would not allow the congress to hold provided the incumbent executive insisted on affirmation.

He threatened that in the event that the state executive failed to conduct the congress, members of the party would be left with no option than to convey its grievances to the national headquarters of the party.

He said that "there is supposed to be PDP congress, and that is what is going on. But there is a mixture of things. The present executive wants to do affirmation. We members of the PDP want a congress. It is the congress that the national leadership of the party asked us to do, and all along, the state chairman has been saying that there would be no congress, that they are going to do affirmation. We members of the party are not going to allow affirmation but congress.

"It was the national body that announced that all states except Kogi, Edo and Ondo, all the rest including FCT must go for congresses."

Also speaking, another member of the party, Dr Abdulganiyu Abdulbaki, said the current executive of the party wanted to perpetuate its impunity while members would not allow such to recur.

He called for the dissolution of the current executive of the party to pave the way for the emergence of new people with fresh ideas.

Abdulbaki also warned that things would not go down well with members of the party if the duly recognised list was not used at the congress. Meanwhile, the state police command said it has arrested nine persons for alleged public disturbance during the congress.

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