Politics
APC Faction Holds Parallel State Congress In Kwara
Sunday Fagbemi has emerged new Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State. Fagbemi is a strong ally of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.
He will take over from Abdullahi Samari, who has now become Vice-Chairman in the new executive committee of the party.
The Chairman of the committe for the state congress of APC in Kwara State, Professor Emmanuel Dan-Daura, announced the outcome of the exercise held on Saturday at the party’s secretariat along Commissioners way in Ilorin.
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were on ground to witness the exercise which was attended by top members of the party in the state.
Other members of the new state executive are, Alhaji Isowo Mustapha (Secretary) Alhaji Kure Yusuf (Financial Secretary) and Tajudeen Aro (Publicity Secretary) among others.
Governor Abdulrazaq, who spoke at the event, harped on the need for winners and loosers in the three congresses of the party, ward, local government and state, to see themselves as family members.
In his acceptance speech, Sunday Fagbemi, said, “We will hit the ground running and will soon intimate the public on the direction we will take.”
He thanked the delegates for the confidence reposed in him and promised to be transparent in his dealings.
Fagbemi emerged alongside 35 other members of the state executive council of the party through consensus among the party stakeholders.
However, a faction of the party belonging to the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, in a parallel congress, announced Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa, as the re-elected state chairman of the party’s faction in the state.
Bolarinwa and other new executive members were also elected through affirmation process at its secretariat, flower garden, GRA, Ilorin, on Saturday.
Dr Bolaji Afolabi, the returning officer, said the new executive members emerged by the wish of the majority members of the party.
Chief Theophilus Adeboye Sunday and Issa Isiaka Agbogi, emerged Vice-chairman and Secretary respectively and Abolaji Olaide Rahmat (Women Leader).
Others are Joseph Ndanusa Tsado, (Senatorial Chairman, North), Abdulraheem Yusuf Akorede (Senatorial Chairman, Central) Barrister Razaq Alabi, (Senatorial Chairman, South), while Comrade Sunkanmi Afolayan emerged youth leader among others.
Addressing newsmen after the inauguration ceremony, Chief Sunday, said the new Chairman could not make it to the venue of the congress due to some reasons.
” BOB is absent for one reason or the other, but as you can witness, people have clamoured for his return as chairman and that is the wish of the majority of members of the party,” the Vice-chairman stated.
In attendance were Shuaib Yaman Abdullahi, House of Representatives member, Alhaji Abdulganiyu Olododo, Hon. Saheed Popoola of the Kwara state House of Assembly and other prominent party chieftains.
The Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, has initiated impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Deputy Ngozi Odu, issuing them a seven-day notice to respond to allegations of gross misconduct.
The Assembly cited eight specific allegations of gross misconduct as the basis for the move.
This is the third time Fubara and Odu would be facing impeachment proceedings from the Assembly since coming to office in 2023.
Attempts to impeach them in 2023 and 2025, amid political feuds between the Governor and his predecessor and erstwhile political god-father, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had been halted by presidential intervention.
Here are the allegations below:
1. Reckless and unconstitutional expenditure of public funds
2. Unconstitutional misappropriation of public funds
3. Hindering the Rivers Assembly from performing its constitutional duties
4. Illegal appointments of persons without screening by the House of Assembly as provided by the Constitution
5. Seizure of salaries and funds meant for Assembly members
6. Seizure of salaries of the clerk of the Rivers House of Assembly, Emeka Amadi
7. Refusal to implement provisions of the Constitution on financial autonomy of the legislature and the judiciary
8. Withholding of funds meant for the running of the Rivers House of Assembly Service Commission and hindering its activities
Lilian Adebayo, the wife of the 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, has said that the party will unseat the ruling All Progressive Party at the 2027 election if Nigerians are true to themselves.
Mrs Adebayo made this assertion known on Wednesday during an interview with journalists after an event in Abuja.
According to her, the opposition party has overcome its crisis after the expulsion of its former chairman, Shehu Gabam and others.
She said Nigerians should vote the APC out in the 2027 general election due to the hardship the party has plunged citizens into.
“There is always a crisis in the party; the SPD has been able to handle its own. The problems in the party have been resolved.
“He has a great chance of winning the election if Nigerians are honest with themselves. If Nigerians think that the ones they consistently vote for would move the country forward, they live in denial,” she concerning the husband.
Recall that SDP recently expelled Gabam and other party executives.
The party’s state chairmen on Wednesday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the police to investigate Gabam over alleged misappropriation.
In a significant political move, Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
Mbah announced his decision during a televised broadcast in Enugu after weeks of speculation.
He said, “Today, after a long reflection, we have made the decision to leave the Peoples Democratic Party and join the All Progressives Congress.”
Mbah explained that his decision to join the PDP was informed by the need to reshape Enugu and reorganise the politics of the state.
“Today, I stand before you to announce a break from the past and to share a decision that will shape the road ahead. This concerns our values, how we organize ourselves politically and how we secure the future of our project and our people.
“Leadership sometimes demands painful decisions in the service of higher principles and goals. And there comes a time, when everyone must make a bold choice to determine their destiny.”
Ahead of the governor’s defection, all members of his cabinet had on joined the ruling party.
Governor Mbah’s Senior Media Aide, Dan Nwomeh, confirmed the mass defection in a video posted on his social media handles on Monday. In the video, several government officials were seen openly declaring their allegiance to the APC, chanting praises for President Bola Tinubu and affirming their commitment to the new party.
“Enugu State Cabinet Members join the APC with full chest along with Governor PN Mbah,” Nwomeh stated.
The officials, including commissioners and top aides, could be heard in the video declaring, “We are now in APC; tomorrow is here; it is APC all the way; it is Jagaban all the way; from top to bottom.”
The collective defection marks a significant political shift in Enugu State, which has been a PDP stronghold since 1999.
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