Emmanuel kehinde,Ilorin
A faction of Social Democratic Party (SDP) known as original SDP in Kwara state has lamented unfair treatment and sidelining from party activities by the present party executive, describing it as total betrayal.
Addressing journalists in Ilorin, Comrade Mabolaje Ibrahim Yahaya, the Chairman of the party recalled that a faction of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Kwara State Chapter known as “Kwara APC Loyal” and led by Hon. Bashiru BolarinwaOmolaja decamped from the APC to join the SDP sometimes in April 2022.
Comrade Yahaya, who said that although judgment had been given in the case which was brought before the Federal High Court with the Court describing it as pure domestic affairs
of the party, he added that the original SDP, in collaboration with its legal team are consulting and still studying the judgment with a view of deciding the next line of action.
He explained that the agreement between them when the said APC Loyal joined their party, (SDP), was that party offices and elective positions from the ward
to the state level will be shared between the original existing SDP members as at that time and the decampees.
Yahaya expressed dismay that, “before the Kwara APC Loyal signified their intention to join the
SDP, the Kwara State Chapter of the SDP had in place a well
organized party structures and executive members from the ward
to the state level.
“However, in their usual betrayal attitude, immediately the APC
Loyal decamped into our party, the SDP, they sidelined the already existing SDP executives led by Comrade MabolajeIbrahim Yahaya, and bulldozed their way into buying over the National Executive of our party, the SDP in Abuja with the resultant effect of taking over the party completely from those they met on ground.
“By the above action, the original existing members of our party,
the SDP in Kwara State led by Comrade Mabolaje Ibrahim Yahaya
felt betrayed and frustrated”.
He alleged that the new decampees in connivance with the National Secretariat of SDP organized kangaroo state SDP congress on 26th April 2022 and deliberately denied the existing members of SDP from participating in the said congress which according to him “is in complete violation of the SDP constitution”
Consequently, he declared that “the executives of SDP KwaraState Chapter led by Comrade Mabolaje lbrahim Yahayachallenged the legality of the said purported state congress of the SDP held on 26th April 2022 in court after exhausting all avenues provided by the SDP constitution to no avail.
“Although judgment has been given in the case which regarded the matter before the trial Federal High Court as pure domestic affairs of the party, the original SDP led by Comrade MabolajeIbrahim Yahaya in collaboration with our legal team are consulting and still studying the judgment with a view of deciding the next line of action”.
