The elders’ caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State has shunned an invitation by the reconciliation committee constituted by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to resolve the intra-party crisis triggered by the recent party primaries in the state.
In a response to the request dated July 11, 2026, for an interactive session by the reconciliation committee headed by Colonel Abdulwahab Lawal (retd), the elders’ caucus of the party acknowledged receipt of the invitation but declared that “we regret that we will not be able to honour the invitation because we made frantic efforts at reconciliation within the party across the state but, unfortunately, His Excellency and the State Executive Committee of the APC rejected them.
“Formal letters that were written to that effect were also ignored,” the caucus stated, adding that “in addition to the various correspondences, the leadership of the state APC elders’ caucus also went to the Government House before the party primaries with the intention of deliberating on the state of the party, but the governor ignored them after they were kept waiting for about three hours.”
The elders’ caucus further alleged that “various letters written to the governor and the state chairman of the party on the above issues and the proposed reconciliation of party members were not responded to.
“From the foregoing, it is obvious that your committee was constituted by the Governor of Kwara State, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, and the party as an afterthought. This is in view of the fact that they are the principal figures and the subject of the current crisis in the party.
“We believe that this is against the rule of law. A party to an issue cannot be a judge in his own case: Nemo judex in causa sua, according to the Latin maxim. Thus, the issue at stake is beyond the scope of your committee.
“Suffice it to let the committee know that we remain loyal to the APC as foundation members and, above all, to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” the statement by Chief James Bamisaiye Ayenioye and Abdulmumin Sidiq Katibi, Chairman and General Secretary, respectively, of the elders’ caucus declared.
