The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State has suspended a former Senator representing Kwara South senatorial district, Senator Suleiman Makanjuola Ajadi, the Special Assistant on Youths Matters to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Mr. Rasaq Apaguntan and 10 others from the ruling APC for alleged anti-party activities during the last general elections.
Speaking at a news conference in Ilorin yesterday, the Assistant Secretary, APC Share Ward 5 in Ifelodun LGA, Mr. Issa Yunusa said that “the decision to suspend Senator Ajadi for alleged anti-party activities was reached at a meeting of the APC in Adio in Ifelodun LGA that involved ward executives, stakeholders and youths in the local government.”
The former Senator according to him allegedly directed all his supporters to vote against the APC House of Assembly candidate for Share/Oke-Ode state constituency, Hon. Rasaq Owolabi during the governorship and state House of Assembly elections.”
“To achieve his diabolical desire, a few days to the elections, Senator Ajadi mobilised the opposition parties, PDP, SDP, ADC, Accord Party and NNPP during a meeting at Babalomo and directed them to vote for Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in the governorship election but to vote for the PDP candidate in the House of Assembly elections and this manifested in the results recorded during the two elections in the state.”
Therefore ”Based on the overwhelming evidence of Senator Ajadi’s compromise of the party’s constitution, we therefore suspend him indefinitely from the party forthwith.”
However in reaction, Senator Ajadi described the suspension by the group as a huge joke taken too far.
