A leadership crisis is brewing within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Magaji Ngari Ward, Ilorin West, as party elders and youths have rejected what they described as plans to retain the current ward executives for another four-year term.
In a statement issued by the Chairman of the Elders in Magaji Ngari Ward, Engr. Usman Hassan Laaro and made available to 9japarrot media, the group alleged that the existing ward executives are “illegal occupants,” claiming that their emergence had earlier been challenged before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with what they described as verifiable evidence and documentation.
According to the caucus, both elders and youths in the ward have distanced themselves from any move by certain stakeholders at the local government level to allegedly reimpose the current fake executives.
“The present executives should not be imposed on us for another four years. Returning them will be strongly resisted because the people are not with them right from unset,” the statement read.
Engr. Laaro warned that retaining the current leadership could further deepen internal divisions within the party in the ward, stressing that some individuals were allegedly making the party’s operations difficult through attempts to impose unpopular and fake leadership on people of magaji ngeri ward.
The caucus, therefore, called on the leader of the party in Kwara State and Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, to urgently intervene to prevent what they described as a looming crisis capable of weakening the party’s structure at the grassroots.
They also appealed for a free, fair, and transparent ward congress that would reflect the genuine will of party members in Magaji Ngari Ward.