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.

Tunde Oyawoye     Unilorin     Moses Afolayan     Ali Ahmad     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Okin High School     Ajeigbe     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Idris Garba     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Onilu     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Arandun     Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng     Olaosebikan     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Kwara NIPR     Ado Bayero     Isaac Gbenle     Usman Yunusa     John Mayokun Dada     Waheed Ibrahim     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Kwara State Fire Service     GANZY     Kaosarah Adeyi     Bayo Ojo     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Maigida     Wasiu Onidugbe     Ishaq Salman     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Oladimeji Thompson     Facebook     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Adegoke Bamidele     Yusuf Mubarak     Offa Poly     Oloyede     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Micheal Imoudu     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Ike Ekweremadu     IQRA College     Sadiq Buhari     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Shehu Alimi Foundation     IEDPU     Kunle Akogun     Ohoro Of Shao     Najim Yaasin     Olateju Lukman     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Ishaq Oloyede     Jide Oyinloye     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Yinka Aluko     Bola Magaji     IHS Towers     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Surajudeen Akanbi     Abubakar Imam     MMWG     Mike Omotosho     Bola Shagaya     Kubra Kazum     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Simeon Sayomi     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     AGILE Programme     Lotus Bank     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Alore     V.O. Abioye     Plat Technologies     Woro     Alimi     Olupako     Erin-ile     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Oke Sunna     FERMA     Alabere     Babaloja-General     Kola Olota     Edu     Sam Okaula     Shehu Salau     Lanre Badmas     Atiku Abubakar     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     MMWG     Babatunde Idiagbon     Vasolar     Sunday Popo-Ola     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Oba Abu     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     CLAY POT     SWAN     ASMAU PLAZA     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Sarkin Malamai     Razak Atunwa     A.E. Afolabi     Oba Abdulraheem     Bluenile Associates     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Abatemi-Usman     Abubakar Baba     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Olushola Saraki     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Yetunde Balogun     Toyin Sanusi     Makama Of Kaiama     IHS Towers     Tanke Road     Ladi Hassan     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Afolayan     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Dele Momodu     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Issa Oloruntogun     Moshood Bakare     ASKOMP     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Magaji Nda     Sabitiyu Grillo     Durbar Festival     Razaq Atunwa     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     John Olobayo     Bello Bature     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Tunde Kazeem     Lateef Alagbonsi     Gbenga Awoyale     John Obuh     IYA ALFA NLA     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Yakubu Gobir     Yomi Ogunsola     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Abdulrasheed Lafia