APC, PDP feud in Kwara gets messier

Date: 2014-01-15

The wrangling between supporters of All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara State yesterday degenerated as supporters of both parties struggled to take control of the former PDP office in the state.

The state was controlled by the PDP before the major political gladiators including the governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed and his political godfather, Senator Bukola Saraki decamped to the APC, hence prompting the National Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur to set up a caretaker committee for the PDP in the state.

How it started
However, trouble started at the office when the PDP caretaker committee tried to take over the office forcefully but was stopped by the APC, triggering confusion in the process.
Journalists who were at the premises to witness the event were pushed around by both parties before the PDP officials addressed a news conference along the street, having failed to take over the office.
The incoming PDP officials, however, refused to leave the area in a bid to establish their presence in the disputed secretariat, just as the APC members stoutly rebuffed the move as they also forced themselves into the secretariat.

Inauguration of Edoja-led committee
The National Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur had last week inaugurated a caretaker committee for the Kwara State chapter of the party led by Solomon Edoja (Delta State) with Alhaji Jubril Bala Jos from Plateau State as secretary.
The events took place even as armed anti-riot policemen watched the two warring parties.

Addressing journalists later on the issue, the state police spokesman, ASP Ajayi Okasina, said at the venue that it was wrong for the PDP to attempt to take over the secretariat when the matter over ownership of the secretariat was still pending in the court.

He asked the anti-riot police officers on duty to, "please, don't allow anyone inside since the case is still in court, we don't want crisis here."
Meantime, the former secretary of the PDP  in the state, Prince Yemi Afolayan in a press statement on the development criticised the police for encouraging the PDP to create crisis  knowing that the matter was in court.
His words: "Yesterday the PDP in Kwara State, in another demonstration of the impunity and disregard for the rule of law for which the party has become known for made another futile attempt to take over our property at the GRA in Ilorin.

"This should not have come as a surprise to anyone given that the party of recent has become a haven for lawlessness with flagrant disregard to the rule of law.
"It will be recalled that former chairman of the party, the PDP sued the police for refusing him assess to its former secretariat. The PDP applied to be joined in the suit which was granted without objection from the plaintiff, Mr. Ishola Balogun.

Court adjourns
"Just as the court adjourned for judgement, the PDP petitioned against the presiding judge. The Chief Judge reassigned the case to another judge of the high court."
"Unknown to us, the PDP has again perfected another onslaught on the judiciary by attempting to forcefully take over the property.

"One wonders what could have motivated the PDP to take the step it took, if not a desire to push our state into crisis. As a law abiding people, and progressives, we have instructed our supporters, who were mobilised against the PDP, not to do anything that will be seen as putting the court in contempt and will continue to appeal to them not to allow this lawlessness on the part of the PDP to push them into anything that can destroy what we have laboured together over the years to build in the state."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     KFA     Muritala Olarewaju     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     CUTI     Oke-Kura     Riskat Opakunle     Crystal Corner Shops     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Logun     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Ajasse-Ipo     Kubra Kazum     Samuel Adaramola     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Ubandawaki     Okanlawon Musa     Yunus Lawal     KSIRS     NITDA     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     AGF Abdulrazaq     Suleiman Ajadi     Usman Rifun     Kwara State Government     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Iliasu     Imam Gambari     Sadiq Umar     Bukola Ajikobi     Quareeb Islamic Association     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Jaigbade Alao     UTME     Bello Oyebanji     John Olajide Adedipe     Marufat Oladosu     MalHub     Abubakar Suleiman     Durosinlohun Atiku     JUSUN     Femi Agbaje     Mustapha Akanbi     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Femtech     Aliyu U. Tilde     Modibbo Kawu     Police Commissioner     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Raheem Adaramaja     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     PharmAccess Foundation     Raji AbdulRasaq     Durosinlohun Kawu     Quareeb     Habeeb Saidu     Harafat E. Mukadam     Iyiola Oyedepo     Maigidasanma     Aso Ofi     Sadiq Buhari     Valsolar Consortium     Ballah     Lanre Aremu     Buhari     Elerinjare     3MTT     Jalala    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Umaru Saro     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Government House     Muhammed Aliyu     Lanwa     Naira Redesign     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Ramat Oganija     Raheem Adaramaja     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Osuwa     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Olosi Of Osi     Temi Kolawole     Ike Ekweremadu     ASMAU PLAZA     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Mohammed Halidu     CCB     Bashir Adigun     Sulyman Buhari     Ita-Nmo Market     Wahab Agbaje     Abubakar Imam     KWSIEC     Olaosebikan     Harmony Holdings     New Naira Notes     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Ahmad Uthman     Yahaya Seriki     Alao Ayotunde     Olateju Lukman     Lithium     John Mayokun Dada     Taofeeq Olateju     Bayer AG     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Centre For Digital Economy     Kwabes     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Ilorin International Airport     Rapheal Ashaolu     Ben Duntoye     Wale Oladepo     Admiralty Villa     Maryam Ado Bayero     John Kehinde Salako     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Sulyman Tejidini     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Abdulwahab Ololele     Aliyu Alhassan     Yakubu Shaaba     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     CACOVID Palliatives     Grillo     Umar Saro     Aro Yahaya     Unilorin FM     GANZY     Jebba     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Wasiu Odewale     ASKOMP     Quareeb     Monthly Sanitation