We are shocked to read in the papers the comments attributed to the chairman of Kwara PDP - we think it is only fair to address him now as former chairman since they have formally ditched the PDP - Alhaji Ishola Fulani that the APC to which they have purportedly defected has no structure in Kwara State and that anyone who wants to be part of the party (APC) should and must come to them.

Clearly, Mr Fulani is a nobody. He was echoing the voice of his so-called 'leaders' who have become pariahs in Kwara State and have no electoral values whatsoever especially now that they have turned their backs on the federal might that has been their pillar over the years. For sure, these so-called leaders who have repeatedly been stoned in the community are nothing but sheer liabilities on APC, as time will tell in due cause. Their defection to APC certainly does not take away the fact that over the years they have sabotaged the collective dreams of our people in their selfish arrogation of collective wealth to themselves.

Indeed, we think such comment from Mr Fulani and his backers is immoral and very unbecoming. It speaks very poorly of a stranger being offered a shelter to turn around and then tell the person sheltering him that the house actually belongs to him the stranger and that but for him the house couldn't have existed in the first place. That is poor manners.

We wish to enlighten Mr Fulani and his people that the Kwara APC that he claimed has no structure was the one that handed the PDP that they once belonged to a historic defeat in the Offa rerun election despite the empty grandstanding of its (PDP) leaders. And the whole world attests to the ignoble manipulations that saw the KWASIEC declaring a PDP man the winner. And in case Mr Fulani and his people suffer collective amnesia, we also remind them that the litigations challenging the kangaroo local council elections are being prosecuted by the Kwara APC that he claims has no structure. Or is Mr Fulani so old to forget that, less than two months ago, he attended meetings ahead the so-called council poll alongside Kwara APC leaders and representatives?

Clearly, Mr Fulani and his people are up to some mischiefs - all targeted at forcefully and fraudulently arrogate to themselves what do not belong to them. It is too soon and sudden to get so desperate, even though we are conscious of these people's antecedence. May we therefore warn them that they are at liberty to seek shelter elsewhere if their ego and selfishness - as manifest in such crude comments just a day after they quit their former party - would not let them honour and respect those who are offering them shelter.

Finally, since they claimed to have quit their old party because it was lacking democracy and respect for those its leadership deems to be enemies, we think the comments ascribed to Fulani give the impression that they indeed may be the ones wanting to impose their will on their fellow partymen. If their fellow partymen didn't tolerate such excesses, they should not expect their hosts in the Kwara APC to look on while they violate the rule of modesty. To be forewarned is to be forearmed!

If the leaders of APC indeed hand over the structure to Bukola Saraki, then we will consider other options including moving to a democratic plaform.

Rev Bunmi Olusona,
On behalf of APC Stakeholders.