The National Working Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissolved the Kwara State Executive of the party loyal to Senate President Bukola Saraki.
The dissolution was announced in a resolution signed by APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, and National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, on Monday in Abuja after the NWC meeting.
Saraki and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State are expected to announce their formal defection from the party soon.
The Senate president last week supervised the defection of 14 senators from the APC. Majority of them, including the other two senators from Kwara, joined the main opposition party, PDP.
Governor Ahmed, who in 2011 took over from Saraki as Kwara governor, also said last week that he could soon leave the APC. Both men are expected to join the PDP.
The sacked Kwara APC chairman, Ishola Fulani, has earlier said the “bond of unity and cohesion in the APC has been weakened, damaged, fractured and severed.”
On Monday, the APC national leadership said a caretaker committee to be led by Bashir Bolarinwa shall be appointed to head the Kwara State executive committee of the party.
It added that caretaker committees would also be constituted in the wards and local government areas of the state.
“The NWC at its meeting of 30th July, 2018, examined the unfolding developments within the party in Kwara State,” the party stated.
“Specifically, the irregularities that characterised the conduct and outcome of the congresses that produced the leadership of the party at all levels.
“The committee also reviewed the actions of some of the leaders of the party that emerged from the above congresses who participated in an open rally calling on the Senate President to decamp to the PDP,” the resolution said.
It added that after a careful and exhaustive deliberation on the issues and other developments in the party’s Kwara chapter, the NWC invoked its constitutional power to dissolve all the state’s organs.
