There appears to be serious acrimony among elders and other stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State over the emergence of Engr. Yakubu Danladi Salihu, Speaker of the State House of Assembly, as the party’s 2027 governorship candidate, DAILY POST reports.
Indications to this effect emerged at a press conference held in Ilorin on Monday by some party elders and stakeholders, who condemned the choice of Danladi-Salihu as the APC’s 2027 governorship candidate, describing him as lacking the capability, competence, and charisma to fly the party’s flag.
Shortly after the group’s outburst, another group dismissed the earlier rejection of Engr. Yakubu Danladi Salihu, who is widely regarded as Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s preferred candidate among party members in the state.
According to the aggrieved group, “the APC candidate does not represent the strongest political option available to the party to win the 2027 governorship race in the state.”
The party elders warned that unless President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the national leadership of the party intervene in the crisis arising from the Speaker’s candidacy, the APC may lose Kwara State to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The elders, led by Chief James Bamisaiye Ayenioye, declared that, aside from the Speaker lacking political goodwill, “the process that produced him is faulty and lacks credibility.”
The group disclosed that the manner in which Danladi was allegedly imposed on the party was condemnable and unacceptable, asserting that “the institution, APC, is being led towards avoidable danger.”
They alleged that the
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