-
Factional group set to open new secretariat
This may not be the best of times for the Kano state chapter of the opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC, as its current crisis worsens.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
As it is, the factional group is set to open a new secretariat in Kano metropolis, according to the arrow head of the splinter, Husseini Maigari.
Only recently the party reportedly split into two with a new faction led by Alhaji Husseini Maigari and another supported by Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso headed by Alhaji Umar Haruna Daoguwa
It was learnt that the unending crisis brewing in the party is not unconnected with alleged dictatorial and despotic leadership style of Kano governor, Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso who assumed the defacto leader- position of the state chapter.
Findings by the Nigerian Pilot Sunday, revealed that since Kwankwaso automatically became the party’s leader in the state, his style of leadership has been overbearing and repressive resulting to the emergence of factions formed by members of the three legacy parties’.
He was accused of fielding red cap loyalists to party positions from the wards and states congresses, among other infraction.
However Speaking to the Nigerian Pilot Sunday, the factional leader of the Kano APC, Hussaini Isah Mairiga, who vowed that his group will continue to operate as a parallel body in the party ,said that “most members and supporters especially of the three legacy parties were relegated to the background, whilst positions either government or political were occupied by the red cap loyalists”,
Mairiga revealed that an office accommodation would soon be rented from where party affairs will be executed, adding that they cannot be party to an undemocratic attitude where the party is run from Government House, Kano as in the case of the faction disposed to by the governor.
Meanwhile, while several efforts to contact the state chapter chairman of the Kwankwaso led faction, Alhaji Umar Haruna Daoguwa, proved abortive, the publicity secretary of the party, Engr. Bashir Karaye, admitted that there were misgivings as some members felt aggrieved but noted that there are still room for reconciliation in line with the position of the new national chairman, Chief John Odige Oyegun, who said the party will soon embark on fence mending towards the 2015 general elections.
