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A leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara, Dr Rex Olawoye, said on Sunday that he had warned Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of a looming crisis in the party’s state section.
Olawoye, a pharmacist, told the Nigeria News Agency (NAN) in Ilorin that he often offered his advice to the governor whenever he asked for it and warned him before the current crisis in the left.
The crisis within the party in the state branch of the APC came to a head with the alleged impeachment of Bashir Bolarinwa as party chairman in the state and his replacement by his deputy, Abdullahi Samari.
According to Olawoye, he warned AbdulRazaq as early as 2019 against the antics of a group called AA, known to be loyal to the governor and creating tensions within the party.
“I had seen him before this crisis and gave him my advice and I won’t give him anything other than that.”
“I warned him that he should not try to set up any political structure other than the APC structure that we have on the ground.
“I told him he had all the weapons to use in this APC structure to get whatever he wanted.
“I said that you are the one person that God has given all the weapons to run the state of Kwara, to merge us and if you merge us together, I don’t see any stronger force than that.
“The Lord God is there. We talked together and I told him that.
“I said that AA thing I hear, why sir?” He said he was not the one who created them, but discovered that the people involved said they worked for him.
“I warned him that this AA thing he got himself into, he might not be able to finish, that I hope the project doesn’t consume us.”
“The second time I met him, I warned him that this AA project is making it harder for us to enter his second term.
“I even told him that we were getting to a point where this AA of one thing was getting embarrassing.
“I warned him against all this one-on-one. The governor has been very respectful to me and I have no reason to cheat on him, but to tell him what I think would make him successful.
“I can’t help anyone else,” Olawoye said.
The leader of the APC also said that some of the AA members had started to usurp the functions of constitutional elected officials at the parish level.
“I told the governor that some of the people who call themselves AA were going to every neighborhood to remove constitutionally elected party officials and move there.
“They have now said that if there was money for the ward, now the man from AA would choose the money and not the elected ward president. I said that was not the way to go.
“I told him there was no one in a position of authority who didn’t have their own worth,” he said.
Olawoye added that he advised the governor to bring together AA and APC leaders and tell AA members to stop interfering in APC affairs.
“I advised him to lead AA members to function only as his vanguard and let the APC leaders do their jobs,” he said.
Olawoye, who described the governor as a calm person, also said he has his own style and vision for the state.
“If there hadn’t been people behind him, he could have seen reason with the opinions of others.
“There is no way that one individual can carry the burden of this state, there is no way that he can.
“Bolarinwa didn’t say he couldn’t work with the governor, it was the governor who said he couldn’t work with Bolarinwa.
“When I see that the end result will not be good, I sometimes intervene. I will tell the governor that I want to see him and he will give me the opportunity and I will tell him my point of view, ”Olawoye said.
However, he called on all members of the APC to engage in dialogue in order to resolve the crisis.
Olawoye added that it was not too late for the governor to resolve the crisis.
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Vanguard News Nigeria
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