The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State appears to be getting messier as the outgoing Caretaker Chairman of the party in the state, Chief Akin Oke, has accused former governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of engaging in undemocratic activities and causing division within the party.
Party leaders in the state were called to a meeting in Abuja by the national leadership of the party with a view to addressing internal crisis.
Oke in a statement on Friday said a follow-up meeting was scheduled to hold at the party’s secretariat in Ibadan but Alao-Akala took it to his private residence.
Oke said, “Chief Alao-Akala issued a statement where he announced that the meeting for the ratification of harmonised lists drawn from all the seven zones would take place in his private residence and invited unauthorised persons in clear negation of the directive we got from Abuja. The question to ask here is: When did the APC become the property of an individual?
“Nevertheless, he remains my brother and a critical stakeholder in our party unless he is trying to say otherwise.”
Although Alao-Akala could not be reached to respond, one of his allies who spoke on condition of anonymity told our correspondent that the ex-governor would not react to the allegations by Oke.
He said, “Akala wants the crisis to end and that is what he has been doing. So, he won’t react to any allegation from Chief Oke.”
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