By Adekunle Jimoh, IlorinThe group under aegis of Concerned All Progressives Congress (APC) youth stakeholders in Kwara state Thursday described the purported removal of the state Caretaker Committee Chairman Hon Bashir Bolairnwa by the national leadership of the party, as illegal and undemocratic.Accordingly, the youths threatened not to allow the forthcoming partys membership registration exercise to hold in the state.The APC youth stakeholders called on the national caretaker committee of the party, led by Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state, to rescind the decision in the interest of the party in the state.The spokesperson of the youth, Mallam Ahmed Ishowo, said that the recent political developments in APC in the state, sad as it is, is returning Kwara state to the bad old days of naked wielding of political power by few privileged to overrun the wishful will of the people.Mallam Ishowo, who was flanked by other youth leaders from the Kwara South and Kwara North senatorial districts, Mr. Olawale Adegboye and Mallam Adamu Abdullahi, said that the alleged removal of Bolarinwa was a move to return the state to dark days of political self-seeking ambitions.The APC youth said that suspension and subsequent removal of Bolarinwa from office on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, was without any prior properly instituted allegation in accordance to the partys Constitution against him, adding that Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, who allegedly claimed he could not work with Bolarinwa, recently affirmed his chairmanship of the party.It is now glaring to every Kwaran of good conscience irrespective of ethnicity, religious inclination, political affiliation and creed that our local democracy is back in grave danger!It is sad that we are at the verge of deviation from our long walk to a politically freed Kwara and a highway leading to progress. We are now on a journey to the direction of an abyss of anarchy.We wish to let the whole nation know that we find ourselves in a situation where the soul of our collective struggle, which was proudly christened asO TO GE (Enough is Enough) is being sacrificed in the most machevillan manner on the altar of politics of selfish interest and desire for more power by a handful few individuals and their collaborators in the corridors of power.Some individuals, who by providence and our collective sacrifice, occupy enviable positions today as governors of APC controlled states in Nigeria have chosen to constitute themselves as impostors, collaboratively violating the constitution of our party and exhibiting sheer disregard for known and acceptable norms and tenets of intraparty democracy, in a bid to foist one of their own upon Kwara state, a state of more than three million inhabitants and a party populated by people of substance who chose to take their destiny and that of Kwara state in their own hands. They resorted to crookedly effect the most vicious kind of political coup via replacing void of due process, the Caretaker leadership of Kwara state. This is anything but moral and an affront to the sensibilities of common APC members in our dear Kwara state.The youth urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the national caretaker committee of the party, headed by Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state to address alleged injustice, and save Kwara state from being thrown into an abyss of anarchy. A stitch in time saves nine.Is it possible to suspend a man without his consent and consequently appoint and swear in another Caretaker Chairman to replace one who is yet to be issued with a letter of suspension or a letter terminating his appointment
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