APC Suspends 11 Loyalists of Mohammed in Kwara

The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended 11 members of the party, who are loyal to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, for instituting a court case against the party and Kwara State chairman of the party Hon. Abdullahi Samari.

The 11 Kwara APC members had approached the court to demand the removal of the approved State Caretaker Committee Chairman contrary to the directive of National Executive Committee (NEC) of June 25, 2020, which directed that no member of the party should institute any action in court.

Mohammed's group had opposed the removal of Mr. Bashir Bolarinwa as the caretaker chairman of the party in the state.

This has led to the protracted crisis, which has created two factions and pitted Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq against the minister in a supremacy battle for the control of the soul of the party in the state.

However, the suspension letter sighted by THISDAY yesterday was dated February 5, 2021, and signed by the National Secretary, Caretaker/ Extra-ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, Senator James Akpanudoedehe and addressed to Kwara State chairman of the party.