Two APC Members Injured Over Power Tussle In Lagos As Aggrieved Faction Threatens To Work Against Party
The wronged camp said the emergency has kept on waiting notwithstanding endeavors by the party’s initiative in the state to track down an enduring answer for it.
Two individuals from the All Progressives Congress have been harmed after brutality broke out over a power tussle in the Surulere area of Lagos State.
SaharaReporters accumulated that the power tussle between individuals from the Coker-Aguda section of the party deteriorated into a fight after certain individuals blamed the party initiative for “seizing of political powers and positions”.
The oppressed camp said the emergency has kept on waiting regardless of endeavors by the party’s administration in the state to track down an enduring answer for it.
A request kept in touch with the APC authority in the state peruses, “The party initiative in Lagos State set up a reconciliatory council across the three Senatorial Districts of Lagos State at some point in July 2021. The Committee for our Senatorial District (Lagos Central) was going by Price Rabiu Oluwa and the Secretary of the Committee was the ongoing Chairman of the party, Hon. Cornelius Ojelabi.
“In the wake of hearing from the two players, the Committee spoke to all the oppressed party individuals and charged us to guarantee we worked for the outcome of the party in the 2021 nearby government decisions in our LCDA, an order which we as a whole followed precisely.
“As coordinated by the party administration during the reconciliatory advisory group meeting, we concurred and sincerely worked for the progress of APC in the last neighborhood government races. However, unfortunately, we were duped again by the power criminals in Coker-Aguda LCDA.
“We later understood that we had been haphazardly bamboozled and thrown around by various classifications of administration we met towards settling the political logjam in Coker-Aguda LCDA APC. The pioneers going from Prince Tajudeen Oluyole Olusi, Hon. (Minister) Cornelius Ojelabi, Chief D. O. Adenekan, Hon. Abayomi Daramola, among others.
“Party pioneers at these advantageous positions have not had the option to agreeably determine our matter. Rather, Hon. Abayomi Daramola has forever been foiling our endeavors, regardless of how great we saw it.”
The wronged parties blamed one Alhaja Omobolanle Akinyemi-Obe for driving hooligans to abuse party individuals who are not in her camp, a demonstration they expressed prompted the hospitalization of two individuals from the party.
“On two distinct events, Alhaja Omobolanle Akinyemi-Obe has supported political hooligans to go after party individuals and cause different levels of wounds for them all the while. One of the occurrences within the sight of party pioneers and individuals, where the hooligans horrendously harmed one Sunday Olanipekun, previous Councilor of Irone/Sanya Ward.
“One more was at the Acme office of our party, within the sight of Hon. (Minister) Cornelius Ojelabi, Hon. Abayomi Daramola, Hon. Lateef Ibirogba, and so on. Party individuals were appallingly harmed moreover. Be that as it may, unfortunately, these state chiefs lacked the ability to emerge to feel for us, with the exception of Hon. Lateef Ibirogba,” they added.
The abused individuals commitment to neutralize the party in the 2023 races, at the state and government levels on the off chance that quick mediation isn’t made.
“As devoted and faithful party individuals from APC, we can’t overlay our arms at this basic phase of our political lives and watch our political endeavors and exercises being risked by the people who are worried about capturing of political powers and positions.
“The emergency has eaten profound into the party structures in the LCDA, to such an extent that, APC looming electing misfortune in the 2023 general decisions is apparently unavoidable,” they added.