APC Crisis: Huge Setback for Tinubu as Prominent Chieftains Dump Party’s Gov Candidate, Back Wike's Ally
- The internal crisis rocking the Oyo State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress is far from over
- The crisis which mainly started from the emergence of Senator Teslim Folarin, as the governorship candidate of the party in the state, was rekindled over the weekend
- The party members are at loggerheads and have refused to come to unity, with just a few weeks left before the 2023 general election
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A lot is happening in Nigeria's political space and these events, many experts have noted, could make or mar the forthcoming polls.
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the dust raised by October 2021 wards, local governments and state congresses of the Oyo State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), and the anger that greeted the emergence of Senator Teslim Folarin as the governorship candidate of the party, is yet to settle.
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Oyo APC chieftains divided, refuse to work for Folarin
The party's chieftains have shown their rejection in their refusal to work for the governorship candidate in the forthcoming polls.
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The Guardian reported that while some aggrieved leaders and aspirants angrily defected to other parties, those who stayed back are not pretending over their determination not to work for Folarin in the March 11 governorship election.
Aggrieved chieftains gives reason for their action
Despite committing them to the reconciliation committee’s decision, some have expressed displeasure at the manner Folarin and his loyalists have been handling the campaign without carrying them along.
Moreso, some chieftains confided in The Guardian saying they would have left the party if not for the emergence of Bola Tinubu, as the Presidential candidate of the party.
APC chieftains dump gov candidate, declare support for Gov Makinde, Wike's ally
They believe that if Tinubu eventually wins the election, whatever they might have lost in Oyo State could be compensated for at the centre.
2023 elections: "God forbid that I return to APC", Ex-Woman Leader slams ruling party
Meanwhile, Beatrice Nkwuda, a former woman leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Ebonyi Central, has spoken on why she recently defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
During an exclusive interview with New Telegraph, Nkwuda claimed she was forced to change her mind about the APC when some former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members led by Governor Dave Umahi joined the ruling party.
The former APC woman leader said that before Umahi's defection from the PDP, she and her colleagues in the ruling party were at peace and free, but that everything changed when Umahi came on board.
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