The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) stakeholders’ forum  in Kwara State Thursday vowed to ensure that the party does not accept any  candidate other than  from the party as its governorship candidate on the platform of the  newly formed All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 election in the state.

The chairman of the forum, Dr. Saad Omoiya, disclosed this to journalists  in Ilorin, after its state's general  meeting which  comprised members from the 16 local government areas of the state.

According to him, "the ACN in the last governorship election in Kwara State polled over 152,000, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) polled 75,000 and  All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) polled 2,000."

He said: "With this outcome of the last governorship election results  in Kwara State, the ACN should be a party to present governorship candidate on the platform of the  APC if eventually the merger worked at the end."
Omoiya stated that: "We learnt from appropriate quarters that, some members within the ACN had been collaborating with our leaders at the top to bring new governorship candidate from outside ACN so as to realise their goal and this will not be accepted."

The ACN chieftain added that: “We will not accept the alleged plan because our governorship candidate during the last governroship election in the state, Mr. Mohammed Dele Belgore (SAN) had performed well and should be given a chance to take the governorship ticket on the platform of the newly-formed APC in the forthcoming election in the state so as to make the party to perform well."

While calling the members of the party to go back to their wards, local and state to woo members into the party, Omoiya said the development would assist the party to excel more in the future polls in the state.

On the simmering crisis over the issue of caretaker executive council of the party, Omoiya said that, "By the constitution or convention, the caretaker for any office should occupy the positions within six months and in this case, the caretaker executive council of the party had over lived and that led to their dissolution."

He said the dissolution had led to the formation of stakeholders forum in the party so as to salvage the party from the brinks of collapse and repositioning it for future success.

Omoiya therefore called on the members of the party to join hands with the leadership of the party so as to move the party forward in the state.