Don’t touch Kogi APC leadership, Melaye, others warn Oyegun

The leaders of the All Progressives Congress from Kogi State met
with the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, in
Abuja on Monday, and warned against dissolving the state executive
committee of the party.

The Kogi State stakeholders of the party under the Senator Alex
Kadiri-led leadership, who are apparently against Governor Yahaya
Bello, said the Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee lacked
the power to tamper with any state executive of the party.

Addressing journalists shortly after a closed-door meeting with
the national chairman at the national secretariat, both Kadiri and
Melaye who spoke on behalf of the other stakeholders, warned that
if the state executive was dissolved, they know what to do.

Kadiri said, “We met with the national chairman and his team.
The conclusions arrived at the meeting are as follows – That the
National Working Committee will not tamper with the APC executive
in Kogi State.

“That is very very important to us. We got an affirmation from
the chairman that that is not in their agenda for their (NWC)
meeting on Wednesday.

“The executive of the APC at all levels in Kogi State will not
be dissolved because there is a procedure for the dissolution of
the party executives at the state level even at the national
level.

“We also disabused our minds vis-a-vis the mind of the national
chairman over the fact that people have accused some persons of
moving funds from Kogi to Abuja.

“We do not have facts to give you anything on this. And the
chairman has assured us that his hands are clean on this matter. We
believe him.”

The leaders of the All Progressives Congress from Kogi State met
with the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, in
Abuja on Monday, and warned against dissolving the state executive
committee of the party.

The Kogi State stakeholders of the party under the Senator Alex
Kadiri-led leadership, who are apparently against Governor Yahaya
Bello, said the Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee lacked
the power to tamper with any state executive of the party.

Addressing journalists shortly after a closed-door meeting with
the national chairman at the national secretariat, both Kadiri and
Melaye who spoke on behalf of the other stakeholders, warned that
if the state executive was dissolved, they know what to do.

Kadiri said, “We met with the national chairman and his team.
The conclusions arrived at the meeting are as follows – That the
National Working Committee will not tamper with the APC executive
in Kogi State.

“That is very very important to us. We got an affirmation from
the chairman that that is not in their agenda for their (NWC)
meeting on Wednesday.

“The executive of the APC at all levels in Kogi State will not
be dissolved because there is a procedure for the dissolution of
the party executives at the state level even at the national
level.

“We also disabused our minds vis-a-vis the mind of the national
chairman over the fact that people have accused some persons of
moving funds from Kogi to Abuja.

“We do not have facts to give you anything on this. And the
chairman has assured us that his hands are clean on this matter. We
believe him.”