Kwara APC Crisis Deepens as Hoodlums Attack Chairman, Other Officials

The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State last Tuesday deepened as the state Chairman of the party, Hon. Bashr Bolarinwa, and other members of the state working committee of the party were attacked by some suspected thugs at Shao town in Moro Local Government Area of the state.

During the attack, the party bus that convened the party state working committee were smashed by the suspected party thugs  and consequently, people at the venue ran for their lives.

The incident, according to media checks, happened during the ‘Thank you tour’ by the state party executives committee to the members of the party for their support during the last general elections and to seek more support for the administration as well as to sustain the support.

This new development in the party, accordingly, might not be unconnected with the internal crisis that had rocking the party shortly after the party electoral victory during the last year general elections.

 

The crisis, it was gathered, had caused factions within the party in the state to the extent that it has snowballed into the festering squabbles between the state Governor,  Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, and other top APC leaders in the state.

However, last Tuesday, some group said to be loyal to the state governor under aegis of AA Support group, with some youths, invaded the venue of the meeting of the ‘Thank you tour’ of the state executive council committee at Shao town, and prevented the party chairman and members of his team from holding the planned meeting and attacked the bus that conveyed them to the venue.

Reports also had it that windscreen of the bus was shattered by the attackers who were said to have also threatened to inflict bodily harm to the party chairman and his team.

Confirming the development, the state Vice Chairman of the party, Sunday Oyebiyi, described the attack as unfortunate, saying it could lead to disintegration of the party in the state.

Meanwhile, the governor has condemned attack on party chairman and his entourage in Shao, calling on the police command to fish out all the perpetrators and prosecute them.