A politician in Kwara State, Mallam Saliu Mustapha has been caught on camera dolling out money to people to register as members of the party in Kwara State.

The APC has suffered major setbacks in Kwara recently as a result of the power tussles between among the political leaders in the party in the state.

At the moment, the party is divided in several camps and factions. While some belong to the Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRaZak faction, others belong to Gbemisola Saraki faction and Lai Mohammed factions. These factions have been on one another throats, a situation that has caused disaffection in the party. This has also caused apathy in the party so much that most people refused to register to revalidate their membership.

But to stem this, Mr. Saliu decided to be wooing people in their hundreds into the party by dolling out cash to each person that successfully register as members. He was said to be giving them N3000 each on registration.

When confronted, a member of the team of Mr. Saliu Mustapha who asked for anonymity said it was an effort at motivating locals to troop out in their hundreds for the exercise.

'When he came, he realised that a lot of people are not happy, they're complaining of the process of the registration."

"So, he needed to give that extra push at his home base only, to encourage a lot more people to come out to register. The motivation is for passport and transport logistics. There is no more to it."

"Mallam (Saliu) is a thoroughbred party man. He will do anything humanly possible to nurture this party that he is a founding member of."

"Moreover, he is spending his money. He is not spending government funds. So, there is nothing bad about him motivating his people to register for his party."

Indeed managing success is more tedious than achieving it!! With the unpredecented electoral victory recorded by the kwara APC in 2019 using the "o to ge" slogan, one would think they are here to stay but now they have successfully adopted "Party Scatter" by fireboy as their party anthem.

Saraki may likely leverage on this crisis to resurrect his crucified political career.