Fresh Trouble For Tinubu As Lagos APC Faction Elects State Exco

Lagos4Lagos movement, a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, held a parallel state congress on Saturday putting to question the dominance of the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

At the congress, Hon. Sunday Ajayi from Agege Local Government was elected as chairman of the faction.

Although the party leadership in the state adopted consensus for the election of the state working committee of the party, leading to the emergence of Hon. Cornelius Ojelabi as the consensus chairman, Lagos4Lagos movement went ahead with its exercise.

The new bloc in Lagos APC had earlier vowed to challenge the “hegemony” of the APC National Leader and former Governor of the state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Daily Trust reports that members of the Lagos4Lagos Movement stormed the Airport Hotel in Ikeja for the parallel congress.

The Lagos APC faction had equally conducted parallel congresses in the ward and local government congresses which preceded the conduct of the state congress while Tinubu was away for medical treatment.

However, it was a different story in Kano as Department of State Service (DSS) operatives sealed off the Sani Abacha Youth Centre, proposed venue for a parallel congress of the APC in Kano state.

The security agents, who turned back journalists at the gate of the centre, said they were given instruction to take over the place and stop any gathering.

They said they were told that the only recognised venue for the APC state congress was the Sani Abacha Indoor Sports Hall.

Earlier at the Sports Hall, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje had declared any other congress gathering as illegal.

Meanwhile, the security agents have fired multiple teargas to disperse the crowds that gathered at the Youth Centre, along Madobi road.

One of the teargas was fired into one of the shops opposite the centre where some of the supporters had sought refuge.

Some of the groups were heard chanting songs of praise in support of Senator Barau Jibrin, one of the lawmakers who had teamed up with former governor of the state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, to challenge the leadership of the party in the state and had asked the party’s national secretariat to cancel all the congresses held by the party’s state leadership.

It was gathered that the lawmakers and their supporters are gathering elsewhere to organise the parallel congress.

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