Crises caused by parallel state congresses of the All Progressives Congress may stall the party’s national convention scheduled for December as aggrieved members threaten to drag the party’s national interim committee to court.
Aggrieved APC members in Delta, Osun, Akwa Ibom and Ekiti states, in separate interviews with journalists, faulted a plan by the party’s national interim committee to recognise executive councils endorsed by incumbent governors or highest political office holders in non-APC states.
They, therefore, vowed to continue with suits filed against the national interim committees as well as the ward and local government congresses.
Some of the aggrieved members, particularly Ekiti State stakeholders, specifically referred to the Supreme Court judgment on the Ondo State governorship election, which they said declared the Mala Buni-led committee illegal.
The crises in the party worsened on Saturday when opposing groups organised parallel congresses in Ogun, Osun, Kwara, Lagos, Kano, and Akwa Ibom states.
In Ekiti and Delta states, APC chieftains boycotted congresses supervised by the teams sent by the national interim committee.
The interim committee had earlier planned to recognise congresses attended by incumbent governors in APC states and highest political office holders in non-APC states.
