A fctional Kwara APC group under the aegis of APC Elders Caucus has called for the immediate suspension of Alhaji Lai Muhammed as a member of the APC in Kwara State and his removal as a Minister from the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The group, at a press conference in Ilorin on Thursday said he his no longer fit too represent the interest of people of Kwara State. Elder Sunday Fagbemi, who led others to the conference said they had resolved to recall Alhaji Lai Mohammed as a minister and warned that he can longer contest the leadership of the party with the state governor.
In attendance at the press conference were Barrister Kunle Suleiman, Sen. Bisi Oyewo, Elder Wole Oke, Sent Ahmed Muhammed, Sent Ajibola, Titus Ashaolu, Mumini Katibi,
In what appears to be a climax to a crisis that has festered over time, the elders accussed Alhaji Lai Mohammed of anti-party for his actions and utterances, "which smack of mendacity, (and) unexpected of a party member of the status of a Minister representing the state in the Federal Executive Council"
The Minister was accused of unveiling of a factional party secretariat of the ruling APC last week when "He shamelessly came Irom Abuia to fan the ember of disunity within the party"
Tracing the genesis of the frosty relationship between the groups, the elders observed that Alhaji Mohammed has been on loggerhead with the state governor from the inception of the administration. "It is also necessary to remind you that with the conclusion of the party's gubernatorial primary election in October, 2018 with Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq as the winner of the primary election. There has since then been no love lost betwwen him and Alhaji Lai Mohammed who had assumed the Leadership of the Party shortly before the primaries, (being the highest political office holder at the time.
"That uncordlal relationship resulting from supremacy contest, has existed up today, It is from this angle that one can understand this lingering hostility.
"It is therefore not surprising that at the same programme on Saturday 3rd July, 2021 Alh. Lai Mohammed tried to divide the Party along ACN/CPC lines when he asked his audience and cohorts whether they knew anybody called AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq before now and the answer was we do.
"Now, the question to be asked is whether the new secretariat unveiled by Alh. Lai Mohammed is for their new party called the Third Force or for APC. This is because it was the same set of people who declared that they have defected to Third Force and burnt brooms (APC Identity) were the same set of people who gathered at Alh. Lai Muhammed's so called "APC Secretariat". There must be an asnwer to this pertinent question"
This group affirmed that since the minister has unveiled an illegal factional secretariat of the party, couple with his continued encouragement and support for factionalisation and distruptive actions, he has shown himself to be against the APC in the state.
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