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Kwara APC crisis festers as Minister, Lai, tags Nabena an imposter

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, refuted reports about the role of Yekini Nabena in the ongoing membership registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State.

According to Mohammed, the various media reports describing Nabena as the APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary on the ongoing revalidation exercise in the state are fallacious.

The minister made this clarification via a press release on Tuesday.

Mohammed also announced that the working committee of the APC had “approved the immediate dissolution of the party organs at the polling units, wards, local government, states, and zonal levels as well as the non-National Working Committee component of the NEC, and the immediate reconstitution and composition of the dissolved EXCOs to serve in their respective offices in a caretaker committee capacity, but excluding the non-NWC members of NEC.

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“As things stand, therefore, anyone claiming to be the Deputy National
Publicity Secretary of the APC is an impostor, hence I will not
dignify such a pretender with a response,” the statement read.

Ripples Nigeria had reported that Mohammed called for the immediate cancellation of the ongoing membership registration and revalidation exercise in Kwara State.

He also asked the party’s national leadership to put in place a process to ensure the conduct of a credible and fair exercise that will enjoy the support and confidence of all.

Addressing a press conference at his residence on Monday in Oro town, Irepodun Local Government of the state, shortly after his registration exercise, Mohammed also demanded: “the immediate disbandment of the Senator John Danboi led membership registration team for Kwara.”

He said, “A vast majority of the APC stakeholders in the state have lost confidence in the committee.”

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