Chieftain warns against replacing Kaduna State APC Coordinator

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Alhaji Lawal Maiturare, has cautioned the national secretariat of the party against replacing the state Coordinator of the party Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Kaduna that doing so would amount to sowing the seed of discord in the new party.
Maiturare said the current agitation by a group against the selection of Baba-Ahmed was not in the interest of majority of the party members.
The chieftain said that those calling for the replacement of Baba-Ahmed were not members of APC.
Maiturare, who spoke on behalf of the former leaders of CPC, ANPP and ACN in the three senatorial zones of the state, added that the agitators were sponsored to cause disunity in APC.
NAN reports that a group, led by Mr Mataimaki Tom-Maiyashi, a former commissioner in the second republic, had questioned the method used in the selection of the coordinators and other officials of the party.

He claimed that it isolated most stakeholders in the party and insisted that the selection must follow due process.


Maiturare, however, dismissed the claim, saying due process was followed in the selection of the state party leadership.
He said the state coordinators were selected because of their wealth of experience and to prepare the ground for effective membership drive.
The chieftain warned that members of the party in the state would resist any attempt to interfere with the selection of the officials.
“We will resist any attempt to impose leaders on us by whatever means. We are in a democracy, and democracy is about choice not imposition,” Maiturare said.
NAN reports that the APC had on Oct.19, selected Baba-Ahmed, a former federal permanent secretary and secretary of INEC, to coordinate the affairs of the party.
Since the selection of Baba-Ahmed agitation against his leadership had persisted. (NAN)