Crack In Oyo APC Congress Committee As Four  Members Abandon Chairman, Secretary

The crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State took a dramatic turn on Saturday  afternoon as four of the seven members in the committee opted out of the assignment and returned to Abuja.

This was even as protesters locked up the Chairman, Lawan Gambo, in his Jericho apartment and prevented him from attending the congress.

Impeccable sources disclosed that the members sneaked out one after the other from the Jericho apartment where they were lodged to head for Abuja en route Lagos.

The four members are Mr Lanre Edun,  Mallam Abdullai Kontagora, Mr Diran Iyantan and Chief Ralph Igbokwe.

It was gathered that the four members had argued at a meeting of the committee on Friday night that the protest against the delegates list presented at the stakeholders meeting should not be dismissed if the party would be reconciled for the 2023 elections.

“A member of the committee who spoke with party officials in Abuja explained that the number of gladiators and groups who have protested the controversial list are too numerous to be ignored. But the Chairman and Secretary are adamant that the congress must hold with the disputed list,” one of the sources told Tribune Online.

The four members who reportedly explained their worries over the adamancy of the Chairman and Secretary walked out of the apartment and organised to be taken to Lagos from where they headed for Abuja.

Hundreds of party members protesting the delegates list locked up the Jericho apartments where the committee members were lodged as early as 6:00 a.m. preventing the chairman and committee members from proceeding  to Liberty Stadium for the event.

Source: Tribune Online