Few weeks after the national leadership of the opposition political party, All Progressives Congress reconciled leaders of the parties that formed the APC in Adamawa State, a fresh crisis has erupted in the fold.
The latest crisis has already led to a gradual movement of some APC members back to the PDP. Saturday Sun gathered that this is a fall-out of the recent membership registration exercise carried out by the APC in the Northeast state.
It was learnt that the drive by the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako to control all structures of the party at all levels has also set members of the 14-man interim committee against one another.
The committee headed by Kobis Aris as interim chairman was recently inaugurated in Yola. Aris also doubles as Secretary to the state government. Other members of the committee include Ambassador Fati Ballah, Secretary; Alhaji Musa Kamale, Treasurer; Abdullahi Bakari, Organising Secretary; and Salihu Ahmed, Publicity Secretary. It also has Danboyi Jiddo as Youth Leader; Titi Maliki as Woman Leader; and Alhaji Saidu Naira, Wafarinyi Theman and Fatima Mohammed as ex-officio members among others.
Just when it appears that peace has returned to the party, the fresh crisis erupted over allegations that a group loyal to Governor Nyako has not only sidelined other groups within the party but has also tried to deny members from getting registered during the recent membership registration exercise.
A member of the state interim executive, Musa Kamale, who confirmed the development in a telephone interview, disclosed that local government chairmen loyal to Nyako with the aid of thugs, totally hijacked registration materials given to representatives of other legacy parties to register their members across the 226 wards in the 21 council areas of the state.
He cited some of the affected local council areas to include Hong, Song, Gombi, Foure and Shelleng. “One other embarrassing thing we witnessed during the exercise was the crude manner these council chairmen hijacked registration materials and gave them to their cohorts, people who were not trained to do that, just for the sole purpose of registering only Nyako people in their homes as against designated centres.
That was why the chairman of the state registration committee, Dr Musa Abubakar, who was sent from the party’s national headquarters in Abuja, had to cancel the first attempt before they even became desperate and started hijacking the materials at the gate of Government House where the registration materials were distributed”, Kamale alleged.
He also accused the state interim chairman of running the party like a sole administrator. “I am the treasurer, since our inauguration, Aris has never called for any exco meeting. We don’t know what is happening in the party. He runs the party like a sole administrator”, Kamale added.
Another source in the party told Saturday Sun that “the latest crisis actually started during the recent rally held by the party in the state. The state government was to help provide 50 buses for each of the 21 local councils to convey party members to the rally but they refused to convey members of the other legacy parties.
It was General Marwa who later assisted to convey our members to the rally. Our group was not even involved or contacted over the planning of the rally. All these were after the so-called reconciliation of our leaders and that means that the Nyako people don’t believe in peace and reconciliation. Even our members that got registered, they have been approaching them to buy their membership cards.”
All efforts to get the reaction of the party’s interim chairman failed as calls and text messages to his phone were not responded to.
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