BY DAUD OLATUNJI

ABEOKUTA—Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, South- South region, Chief Tom Ikimi, has raised the alarm over the impending exodus of members of the party nationwide, urging party leaders to urgently wade into the crisis rocking the party in some states, including Ogun, Delta, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers and Edo states, to avoid a political disaster.

Tom Ikimi

Chief Ikimi, in a letter written to the interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, said he consulted nationwide and discovered that “all is also not well.”

He lamented being almost rendered incapacitated in the region to resolve the political logjams in the party, accusing the party leadership of establishing ‘strange channels of communication’.

Ikimi also claimed that he had gathered that “some secret names are now being compiled to form National Convention Committee. How we are to proceed to a National Convention under the present circumstance baffles me.”

According to him, “I have spoken to party members and leaders across the country and the feeling is unanimous regarding the downward trend of things. I am writing this from Benin, you must have gathered from the press and other sources all is also not well.

“The latest problems arise from the Congresses, where in the South-South region, there are fundamental problems in Delta, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers and Edo. I have been informed of similar problems in other states across the country.

“Parallel Excos have emerged in Ogun State. Here in the South South, I could personally do nothing as a leader or the South South Vice Chairman since the arrangements on ground give me no powers to operate.

“Party headquarters has established very strange channels of communication with my region and State. I accepted the position of South-South Vice Chairman just to assist build our party in this region. Unfortunately I have not been allowed to do so.