Kwara APC Holds Peaceful Ward Congress

The Lwara State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) yesterday held congress across the 193 wards of the state.

The exercise was peaceful and carnival-like across many of the places visited by reporters in Ilorin, the state capital, and a few other areas in the state, including Asa, Ekiti, and Baruten.

Speaking to reporters on the sideline of the event at the party’s secretariat in Ilorin, the APC chairman, Prince Sunday Fagbemi, said the new leaders emerged through affirmation.

“This is the ward congress of the party which takes place in all 193 wards in the state. So far so good, we have not heard any adverse reports. The idea behind affirmation is to make the exercise less rancorous.

“It is an affirmative congress because our people are supposed to be carried on from where they are, but it is a constitutional responsibility of the party to go through the process,” he said.

Fagbemi said the exercise signified progress, unity and togetherness and foretells huge success for the party in the 2027 general elections and beyond.

The chairman of the congress committee and deputy chairman of APC in the state, Alh Abdullahi Samari, said all participants had been duly screened before their participation in the exercise.

“So far so good, the report we are having is very encouraging. You cannot go to any affirmation without being screened. So, all the candidates have been screened by the party and they were found worthy to come back as APC executives at their respective wards. That is why we are having the affirmation taking place in the whole 193 wards in Kwara State,” Samari said.

The secretary of the screening committee, Oche Muhammed, said they had properly screened the list of aspirants ahead of the elections into various offices, adding that the exercise has so far been peaceful.

“We were given a list of screened accredited party faithful who vied into various ward offices. Elections have been conducted peacefully in various ward centres. Already, we have received some results while we await other results,” Muhammed said.

The chairman of APC in Ilorin West local government, Hon. Suleiman Tejidini, said the reports from all the 12 wards in the council indicated that the exercise was going on smoothly and rancour-free.

“We reaffirmed all our chairmen and other party executives. All the stakeholders, including the elders, women and youth took part. That is why we can see jubilation everywhere because it was a collective decision of all the relevant stakeholders.”

He appreciated Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, APC chairman, Prince Sunday Fagbemi, political appointees, members of the national and state assemblies, council chairmen and other stakeholders.

Reports from Southern and Northern Senatorial Districts also showed that the exercise went smoothly.

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