By Mumini AbdulKareem
The Ilorin South Local Government chapter of the Kwara State of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has suspended its chairman, Mallam Mansuru Ademola, over alleged acts of indiscipline and abuse of internal democracy.
The decision, according to the acting chairman, Comrade Akeem Jaji, was taken on Monday after an emergency meeting held at the party’s local government secretariat.
The local government executives in a press statement after the meeting stated that Mallam Ademola was suspended for promoting factions within the party executives and members, dictatorship, lack of honesty and transparency in running affairs of the APC among others.
The party executives further said, “The local government executives after due consultations with elders and stakeholders therefore resolved to suspend the chairman to allow for a proper and unbiased investigation to be carried out.”
But Ademola in a telephone chat, last night, with this reporter said the state chapter had waded into the matter adding that the suspension did not follow due process.
“I am not suspended; the party is already looking into the issue.”
However, the acting chairman, Jaji in reply to Ademola told our reporter in a telephone conversation, last night, that the embattled chairman remains suspended adding that due process was followed and that the executives will have to convene another meeting if at all it will be reversed. “He remains under suspension”, he noted.
“He (Ademola) is not the chairman of the party in Ilorin South. We have been summoned by the state legal adviser and we have discussed. He (Ademola) pleaded that the suspension should be lifted and we said we will go back to convene another meeting. He is still under suspension and we have suspended him before on January 23, 2019 and the state legal adviser was aware through the same process which we also used now. The Legal Adviser received our letter sent to the state chairman then and if at all we have to lift the suspension, we have to call for another meeting with the council executives. So I cannot tell you now if it will be lifted or not”.
