Kogi APC crisis deepens, Bello constitutes parallel exco

Gbenga Odogun

The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State has assumed a new dimension as the governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Saturday, announced the constitution of a new executive council to pilot the affairs of the party in the state.

This followed the purported dissolution of the state exco on Thursday by the North-Central zonal exco, which indicted the Hady Ametuo-led exco for anti-party activities levelled against the exco by the Kogi State governor.

However, in a reaction by the national secretariat of the party on Friday, the APC spokesman, Bolaji Abdulahi, said the National Working Committee had nothing to do with the dissolution as no recommendation had been received from the committee earlier set up to look into the crisis in the state.

“Our attention has been drawn to a story on national television that the State Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State has been suspended.

“We want to state that this action does not emanate from the National Working Committee of the party or any of its organs empowered to do so,” the APC spokesman said.

According to him, although there are issues within the party in Kogi State and the NWC had empowered a committee to investigate the issues and make recommendations. The NWC had not been appropriately briefed on the outcome of the committee’s work and therefore had not taken any decision.

But in a statement on Saturday announcing the constitution of a new state exco, the Director-General on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Kingsley Fanwo, listed the names of those to replace the sacked exco as Ahovi Salam Ibrahim (acting Chairman), Abdulrahman Ibrahim (acting Deputy Chairman), Mr. Bola Ward (acting Treasurer), and Billy Onumoko (acting Assistant Treasurer), among others.

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