Two factions of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State on Saturday held parallel local government congresses of the party.
The congresses were held to elect local government officials of the party in the state.
One faction of the APC in the state is loyal to the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun, while the second faction is loyal to a former governor, Olusegun Osoba.
At the end of the exercise, which also recorded some skirmishes, both factions released results of their elected executives from their various local government areas.
Mr. Amosun, while speaking to journalists in Owode, said he was doing everything possible to reconcile all factions in the party. He appealed to the elected executives loyal to him not to victimize any members of the party.
Mr. Amosun said Mr. Osoba was still a leader of the APC in the state and he would not do anything to diminish the former governor’s authority.
He described the congresses as peaceful, saying that the interest of many aspirants to contest elections on the platform of the party was an indication that the APC had been well accepted in the state.
Despite Mr. Amosun’s reconciliation message, the party faction loyal to Mr. Osoba has instituted two suits against the Independent National Electoral Commission, the APC, the State congress committee, and five others at the Federal High Court, Abuja and the Federal High Court, Abeokuta over the conduct of last week’s ward congresses.
The faction, in suit number FHC/ABJ/294/2014, asked the Federal High Court to declare the ward congresses null and void. The congress committee had recognised the results of the Mr. Amosun faction of the party as authentic after the ward congresses.
A senator, representing Ogun Central Senatorial District, Gbenga Obadara, said he and other members of the party had rejected last Saturday’s ward congresses because the conduct did not follow party guidelines.
Mr. Obadara, who is a loyalist of Mr. Osoba, confirmed that parallel congresses were held in the 20 local government areas of the state.
There were reports that three persons were injured in Ogbere in Ijebu-East Local Government Area and were hospitalised after rival factions engaged in violence with dangerous weapons.
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