Kwara APC Crisis: Group Warns Tinubu Not To Intervene

A group of young professionals in Kwara State under the aegis of Kwara for Kwara Movement yesterday advised the national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to stay away from the ongoing reconciliation intervention in the waring APC groups in the state.

The group said the APC stakeholders that visited Tinubu in Lagos recently always condemned the allegiance of Kwara as a northern state to Tinubu being a South-westerner, and now they are looking for him to reconcile them.

The Convener of the group, Alhaji Isola Mosudi, who spoke at a news conference held at the Kwara State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ilorin, yesterday, however, said: “Asiwaju Tinubu should leave us to resolve our crisis.

“We are worried that APC stakeholders still have any iota of hope in either the APC national leadership or any of its stalwarts to bring forth justice and fairness to the Kwara APC after they have all either compromised or stood akimbo while members of the party were subjected to political humiliation, which led to degeneration of the crisis.

“More so, they, including Tinubu, were part of the genesis of the problem, and yet, watch the agonising political situation for over two years. Can there be peace without justice?”

Mosudi added: “Asiwaju may find it interesting to know, if he was not told by the stakeholders who visited him in Lagos, that the state Governor and his disciples have always condemned allegiance of Kwara (Northern state) to Tinubu being a South-westerner.

“We, however, want to categorically state, that the purported reconciliation of APC in Kwara State is a mirage for chronic betrayers.

“Of particular concern to us, is the recent meetings of warring APC factions with Tinubu, who purportedly mulled the idea of reconciliation.

“We are then prompted to ask: is Asiwaju just aware of Kwara State APC crisis that has lingered for over two years while away in London? Why is the call for reconciliation coming now? Or is it in the interest of Kwarans or to satisfy personal political egos in 2023?

“We indulge Asiwaju to leave us to deal with the chameleonic character he was instrumental to imposing through the back door on Kwarans in 2019, which became a monster.

“Asiwaju was never concerned about solving the problem he helped created, until now that elections are approaching. Is it for him to use Kwara State to strengthen his own political chances or in whose interest?

“As much as Tinubu and co are well respected party leaders, they have only demonstrated that Kwara State matter is only of concern to them when they need us for politics.

“Since they have shown no concern about how we have fared with the problem they created for us due to the imposition of Governor AbdulRazaq because of Asiwaju’s personal relationship with Dr. Alimi, we are convinced that anyone from Kwara have no business considering them as options to resolve our problems. They do not have votes in Kwara State, hence, shouldn’t be our determinant factors.”