APC Crisis Widens as CPC Faction regroups in Gombe

A group, ‘Adalchi’ com­prising members of the defunct Con­gress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Gombe State have been formed to broaden sup­port for President Muham­madu Buhari and ensure bet­ter representation in the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership in the state.

The group’s Chairman and former member of House of the Representatives rep­resenting Gombe, Kwami and Funakaye Constituency, Hon Khamisu Mailantarki, told journalists in Gombe that CPC members decided to regroup to resist the ac­tivities of party leaders in the state, whom they accused of jeopardising the efforts and policies of the Buhari-led ad­ministration and marginalis­ing them.

He said that though the APC emerged from the merger of three political par­ties, members of the defunct new-PDP in Gombe hijacked the party from the ward to the state levels.

“The members of the CPC were shut out as none of the CPC member emerged in the APC executive committee or structures from the unit, wards, local government, state and national level”, Mailantarki alleged. (BT)