Thousands of aggrieved members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Saturday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, dumped the party to form what they described as a “Third Force”.

This is coming just as political activities for the 2023 election gained momentum in the state.

The MM Event centre venue of the decamping exercise along Offa Road was full to capacity as thousands of APC card-carrying members burnt scores of brooms, which is the symbol of the party.

The Kwara Central Senatorial Chairman, Alhaji Abdulfatai Abdulrahman – flanked by other notables leaders – who addressed the gathering, said their “New party will soon be unveiled in due course”.

However, many of their supporters donned the paraphernalia of the Young Peoples Party (YPP) believed to be sponsored by a former gubernatorial aspirant, Yakubu Gobir.

A cross-section of the decampees

According to the senatorial chairman, “It is, however, disheartening, shameful and preposterous that Kwara APC cannot manage its success even at half time of its tenure in the saddle of governance in the state.

“The intra-party crisis has been on for long and unabated.

“The struggle for the soul of the party, which cannot be divorced from the 2023 political ambitions, has been the root cause of the lingering internal squabbles.

“The hopes and expectation of party members to reap the fruits of their collective labour have been dashed due to the self-inflicted and unwarranted crisis. This was not what Kwarans bargained for”, he added.

He accused the Senator John Danboi-led team and National Secretariat of the party of doing nothing to address the “perfidious and glaring aberration process” of the registration/revalidation exercise, describing it as flawed with deliberate policies and grand orchestration to deregister and disenfranchise selected members of the party.

“The deliberate inaction to address the lingering crisis in Kwara APC has become obvious to all discerning minds that the agenda to deregister and refusal to revalidate thousands of members across the state was a grand plot that has the backing of the National Caretaker Committee.

“There is also evidence that the incumbent governor has concluded every arrangement to ensure all the elective positions from the wards to the state level work in his favour to ease his re-election bid as governorship flagbearer of the party”, he said.

Abdulrahman, who put the figures of the new decampees at twenty thousand, listed other members to include local government party chairmen, local government women leaders, youth leaders, wards chairmen as well as APC party stalwarts across the sixteen local government areas in the state.

https://dailytrust.com/breaking-thousands-dump-apc-in-kwara-state-burn-brooms

Useless Publicity stunt. Wetin those innocent brooms do them now

Burn broom and umbrella but will still sell their future for N2,500.

Let us see the pictures, please

Wetin innocent brooms do una? Stupidity!

I keep telling people that APC is not a political party. APC is evil. They are terrorist sympathizers. What a country rule by unfortunate people!

APC na party.
A party of pain and destruction.

Xscape1993:
I keep telling people that APC is not a political party. APC is evil. They are terrorist sympathizers. What a country rule by unfortunate people!

currently its looking like PDP is now the regional party.

Its not about the party sha, its about politicians.

We have good people like Osinbajo, Umahi and that Borno governor and the bad ones too in APC.

Young people party... script in motion to vote in a younger Buhari. At d end of the day...we are in the same place with worsening insecurity.

richmond500:
currently its looking like PDP is now the regional party.

Its not about the party sha, its about politicians.

We have good people like Osinbajo, Umahi and that Borno governor and the bad ones too in APC.

Not too bad. Good one.

Luckydubby7:
APC na party.
A party of pain and destruction.

Well said, but majority of blacks don't like the truth sir.

Xscape1993:
Not too bad. Good one.

what is this one saying? Are u funding it difficult to write in English?

Well no party is bad, we just have bad politicians and PDP currently has more bad people than APC in a ratio of bad to good ones

Wetin innocent whisk

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However, many of their supporters donned the paraphernalia of the Young Peoples Party (YPP) believed to be sponsored by a former gubernatorial aspirant, Yakubu Gobir. OK

techWriter1:
Wetin innocent whisk

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METAPHYSICAL E BE LIKE SAY TRIBALIM DON TIRE YOU ABI

Saraki at work

richmond500:
Useless Publicity stunt. Wetin those innocent brooms do them now

Burn broom and umbrella but will still sell their future for N2,500.

you expect them to burn umbrella when you already know that we are in a rainy season.

Jostoman:
you expect them to burn umbrella when you already know that we are in a rainy season.

I am not talking about literally burning umbrella.

I said they will burn broom and umbrellas which means they will denounce both PDP and APC but will still vote for the highest bidder in 2023

APC is a scam
Before 2023 general election anybody seen with broom or shouting APC will be stoned including the Jihadist General.

APC is dead in Kwara state. Come 2023, PDP will reclaim it's mandate in many states in 9ja cus we r tired of dis government.