The crisis rocking the Delta State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has deepened following renewed
leadership and personality rivalries.
Kachukwu’s
bid to provide acceptable leadership for the party in the state was at the
weekend running into troubled waters after a faction of the party categorised a
new set of leadership with former members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party,
PDP, taking the ascendancy.
Kachukwu
had last week invited some leading party members in the state, including some
who recently defected to the party from the PDP, to a meeting where a
leadership council to direct the affairs of the party was expected to be
instituted.
That
effort was mainly on account of legal controversies that had dogged the state
executive council of the party headed by Prophet Erue Jones. The Jones
leadership was in April 2015, declared illegal by a Delta State High Court in
Asaba upon a suit instituted by Chief Adolo Okotie-Eboh.
However,
to the chagrin of many party stakeholders, the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led
national leadership has continued to liaise with it. The Jones leadership is
also supported by the immediate past governorship candidate of the party,
Olorogun O’tega Emerhor.
The
spark for the crisis was last weekend’s publication of another set of
leadership pitching Kachikwu and Emerhor as co-chairmen of a state leadership
council with the factional state chairman, Jones taking second fiddle.
The grouse of members is that a number of prominent party members who came from the legacy
parties that formed the party in the State originally were omitted, while many
who joined the party just before and after the 2015 elections were co-opted
into the new arrangements.
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