Kwara State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, said it had not picked anyone as its anointed candidate for the 2015 governorship election.

The state Chairman of the party, Kayode Olawepo, said this, also denied insinuations that the state ACN Caretaker Committee had been dissolved.

Olawepo described the purported dissolution reportedly ordered by a “dissident” stakeholders’ forum at a meeting in Ilorin as a ruse.

The chairman said the so-called ‘stakeholders forum’ was a group of nonconformists, confused and desperate politicians seeking relevance and defending the sole gubernatorial interest of a former candidate of the party.

He said: “This is to state for the umpteenth time that there is no crisis in Kwara ACN. There are no factions in the party but the existence of a dissident group that is seeking relevance and working for the sole interest of a former candidate of the party.

“The pronouncement of the so-called stakeholders’ forum that it has dissolved the state caretaker committee further exposed these disgruntled politicians within our midst.

“What they have committed is a grievous act of anti-party and an affront on the national chairman and national executive committee of the party that has sole power to dissolve the caretaker committee in Kwara State and their nefarious activities have been duly reported to the national headquarters of the party.

“There are a number of other groups within the party like the G15, Integrity Group, Ifesowapo, among others, and none of them has been using the secretariat for any of its meetings.

“We have therefore reached out to the national headquarters of our party to secure for us a new and acceptable secretariat in Ilorin…

“Therefore, the party dissociates itself from the so-called stakeholders’ pronouncement; Kwara ACN has no candidate for the 2015 election.”