APC membership registration turns ‘black market’ in Ogun

APC membership registration turns ‘black market’ in Ogun

The All Progressives Congress (APC) membership registration and revalidation exercise appears to have turned into a ‘black market’ in Ogun State, 

Before now, the APC in Ogun State has been enmeshed in crisis, splitting into different factions.

There is the Senator Ibikunle Amosun faction, the Osoba faction and the Dapo Abiodun faction.

In the buildup to the 2019 governorship election, the Osoba group had joined forces with other smaller groups in an attempt to ‘snatch’ power from Amosun, who was the State governor at the time.

Since Dapo Abiodun emerged winner, the infighting in the APC has continued to grow as various groups made efforts to outsmart one another.

It was gathered that the ongoing membership registration and revalidation exercise was seen by a faction as an opportunity to send others out of the party.

Investigation by our correspondent revealed that while the exercise commenced on Tuesday, many polling units and wards are yet to set their eyes on the registration forms as of Friday.

In places where the forms are available, there was what the people termed ‘rationing’, whereby a few forms will be made available to loyalists of the faction in charge of the exercise.

It was also gathered that some leaders took the forms into their rooms in order to register party members in their group. One of such was discovered somewhere in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government.

For this reason, a renowned member of the party from Yewa North, Hon. Sogo Akinde described the whole registration as a black market.

Asked why he called the exercise a black market, Akinde said, “They don’t display black market for buyers to see, you look for where they hide it".