Elders Of The Ruling Party (APC) In Kwara State Calls For The Removal Of Lai Mohammed As Minister And Demand His Suspension From The Party

 

The Elders of the ruling party (APC) in Kwara State have called for the removal of the Minister of  Information and Culture,Alhaji LAi mohammed from office and demand for his suspension from the party over allegations of his continous effort to divide the party in the state and his persistent attacks on the Governor of Kwara State, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRAzaq.

According to the Vanguard ;

  "The elders of the party across the 16 local governments among whom were Barrister Kunle Sulyman, Senator Ahmed Mohammed, Prince Sunday Fagbemi, Cheif Wole Oke, Senator Bisi Oyewo, and Barrister Titus Ashaolu SAN,Alhaji Abubakar Ndakene and several others said this at a press conference in Ilorin on Thursday."

Prince Sunday FAgbemi who is their spokesman attributed the crisis in the party to the drive to earn leadership of the party by the minister which is a struggle that can be dated back to 2019 election and campaign era,stressing that leadersship of the party can't be contested against by the minister in favour of the Governor.

In his words "May we at this point refresh your memory of the rebirth of the party in 2018 : It was an amalgamation of varied tendencies with no common ideology and therefore lacking in the most rudimentary party discipline at the take-off of it's operations."

"It is also necessary to remind you that with the conclusion of the party's gubernatorial primary in October 2018 with Mallam Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq emerging the winner of the primary election it has been a case of no love lost between him and Alh Lai Mohammed who had assumed the leadership of the party shortly before the primaries (being the highest political office holder at the time). That uncordial relationship resulting from supremacy contests has existed up till today. It is from this angle that one can understand this lingering hostility."

"It is therefore ,not suprising that at the same programme on Saturday, 3rd July 2021 Lai Mohammed tried to divide the party along ACN/CPC lines when he asked his audience wether they knew anybody called AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman before now and the answer was that they didn't."

According to Prince Sunday Fagbemi the spokesman :

  "The audience of the minister were those who dumped APC and burnt their brooms to form Third Force,saying ,now the question to be asked is whether the new secretariat unveiled by Alhaji Lai Mohammed is for their new party called the Third Force or for APC."

"This is because it was the same set of people who declared that they defected to Third Force and burnt brooms (APC identity) who gathered at Alh LAi Mohammed's so-called APC secretariat. There must be an answer to this pertinent question."

"It is clear to those of us who are politicians in Kwara State and who understand the dynamics of Kwara politics that majority of those who attended the unveiling ceremony of Alh Lai Mohammed's secretariat were members of his erstwhile campaign organisation Lia Mohammed Campaign Organisation (LAMCO) to whom he distributed all the cars and motorcycles belonging to APC in 2019 general election."

"The estranged relationship between himand the governor who by party's constitution is the leader of the party in the state ,is most uncalled for.His continuing encouragement and support for the actionalisation of the party are divisive and disruptive to the party. It is anti-party ,he cannot contest the leadership of the party with the governor."

giving credit to the vanguard.

They therfore called for the immediate suspension of Alh Lai Mohammed as a member of the APC in Kwara State for his actions. We also called for his removal as a Minister from the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari for he is no longer fit to represent the interest of the people of Kwara State."