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Group Kicks Over Missing APC Congress Nomination Forms
By Segun James
As the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ward congress holds today in Lagos State, opposition Lagos4Lagos has kicked against non availability of nomination forms for contestants even as they accused the state government of hijacking materials for the congress.
Lagos4Lagos leader, Mr. Olajide Adediran, at a stakeholders meeting held ahead of the congress at the Lagos Airport Hotel, said the process has been hijacked to favour certain interests.
He described Ward congresses as laughable and not feasible, querying how ward congresses could hold in 245 wards across the state without a delegate list and people who will conduct it.
Olajide said, “We have our intending members for the ward congress and our members paid for the forms but as we speak we did not get any forms. We have our tellers as evidence. We know what they are doing, they want the status quo to remain.
“We will go ahead with our own congress because we have paid into the coffers of the party. At the end of the exercise, we will submit our list. They only invited us to the stakeholders meeting because they know we are a force to be reckoned with,” he added.
In his reaction, APC spokesman, Seye Oladejo, said “Perhaps they need some political education here. There’s an ad hoc committee set up deployed to all the states of the federation by the National Caretaker Committee for the purpose of conducting the ward congress. I think it’s uncharitable to drag the state governor into needless politics and distractions. It’s just a poorly thought allegation from a group that will soon be history.”
Earlier, at the stakeholders meeting where newsmen were sent out, Chairman of the Committee on the congress in Lagos, Bashir Dangiyadi, appealed to those present at the meeting to cooperate with the committee by ensuring that the congress is peaceful in all the wards.
Dangyadi stated that the party has chosen consensus as a way to conduct the congresses, noting that the exercise must be conducted in the party’s ward offices.
