The National Reconciliation Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) set up by the Caretaker Committee of the party to reconcile aggrieved members of the party had its plate full.

As at the time of the inauguration of the committee by the Chairman of the APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Governor Mai Mala Buni, the party was already confronting a litany of crises arising from its ward and local government congresses.

The friction was so rife that parallel congresses at ward and local government levels held in no less than eight states of Kwara, Imo, Ogun, Zamfara, Lagos, Osun, Enugu and Delta State.

Factions also began to emerge with members queuing behind certain emerging forces within the party in many states. For instance, in Kwara State, the party was divided between those loyal to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and the state Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, while in Ogun State, members were divided between Governor Dapo Abiodun and the immediate past Governor Ibikunle Amosun.

In Osun State, the fight was between the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola and Governor Gboyega Oyetola while in the North, there is a simmering crisis in the Zamfara State chapter of the party with Governor Bello Matawalle and his immediate predecessor, AbdulAziz Yari and Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa.

Similar situations also played out in Delta State with the Minister of State for Employment, Labour and Productivity, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN and Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, while Governor Hope Uzodinma and his predecessor, Senator Rochas Okorocha in Imo are also feuding.

As the committee was settling down to its work shortly after its inauguration, the state congresses of the party, which held last Saturday, aggravated the situation by opening fresh wounds, thereby adding to the tasks before the committee, with no less than 13 states ripped by the fracas of parallel congresses.
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