…as Ward Vice-chairman denounce suspension
THE INFORMANT247
19-04-2018.
The Kwara state Chapter of the All Progressive Congress has on Wednesday suspended a former green chamber legislator and aide to the senate President, Hon. Mashood Mustapha.
Hon. Mashood Mustapha fondly called MM who recently voluntarily resigned his appointment as Special Adviser to the Senate President on Inter-Parliamentary Matters, Protocols and Special Duties is one of the top contenders in the Kwara state Guber race in the forthcoming election.
In a statement jointly issued by the APC chairman of Alanamu ward, Alhaji Abdul-Rahman Jimoh and secretary, Mallam Abdulwasiu Kehinde, it is disclosed that Mustapha failed to honour his invitations and refused to communicate with the Party on his alledged defection.
The motion for his suspension was said to have been moved by a former Majority Leader in the state House of Assembly, Kayode Omotose and was seconded AbdulWasiu Tetengi at an emergency meeting at Isale- Aluko, Ilorin.
The meeting was attended by APC stakeholders, elders, youths, women leaders, senatorial chairmen, zonal chairmen and zonal women leaders.
However in what appeared to be a counter move, the ward vice chairman, Alhaja Iyabo Lawal, in conjunction with the Youth leader, Abdulganiy Saka Jato, Welfare Secretary, Alhaji Sulaiman Yahaya and Ward PRO, Hassan Abdulgafar denounced the suspension of the former aide saying “There was no time such decision was taken by the Executive members of the party in the ward.”
They further reiterate their firm believe in the leadership of the former aide, “We believe in the leadership of Hon. MM both at the ward and state level. The purported suspension is predicated upon the incoming APC congresses which by the grace of God will usher in new leadership from the ward level to state level.”
“Hon. Moshood Mustapha is a respected leader in the ward and has contributed to the formation, growth and development of the party, and he has not committed any infraction to warrant any suspension from the party.”
All efforts to contact the state chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Alhaji Ishola Balogun-Fulani, for comments, proved abortive till time of filling this report.