Again, Crisis Hits Delta APC

Sylvester Idowu in Warri

 Crisis has again hit the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

 The party’s 2015 Delta State House of Assembly candidate for the Wuuarri South 1 Constituency seat, Robinson Ariyo, who gave this hint at a press briefing in Warri yesterday, fears that the party might lose the opportunity of presenting a candidate in the upcoming by-election into the vacant Warri South 1 state constituency seat if the national secretariat of the party fail to urgently resolve the crisis.

Ariyo lamented that the party in the state lacked cohesion, as about six factions are laying claim to leadership.

Ariyo noted that the Prophet Jones Erue faction, which currently parades as the authentic leadership, had violated the spirit of the party’s constitution by filing a suit against the party, without exhausting internal provisions for redress, an action which punish us automatic expulsion from the party.

According to him, the APC in Delta State currently has no leadership as Prophet Erue’s led council had been terminated by a subsisting court action instituted in 2014 by an aggrieved group in the party, led by Chief Adolo Okotie-Eboh, adding that Erue and those who joined him in 2015 to file the suit against the party had automatically been expelled by the party’s constitution.

“On April 30, 2015, the Adolo Okotie-Eboh led SEC successfully upturned the legal status of Jones Erue led SEC in a Suit No. A/245/2014. Let’s bear in mind that an appeal has been filed against the judgement by the Erue’s led SEC. However, it is left for the APC to either act on the said judgement or pretend that it’s hands are tied by the judgement.

“APC has constitution and the law remains that every member of a political party is bound by the constitution of the party. Any member who files an action in Court of Law against the party or any of its officer on any matter relating to the discharge of duties, without first exhausting the avenues for redress provided for in the constitution shall automatically stand expelled from the party in filling such action.