Ondo APC crisis deepens

*Party executive suspend chairman, set up disciplinary committee

*I remain Ondo APC chair -Kekemeke
Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo state have set up a three-man facts finding disciplinary committee to investigate the embattled chairman of the party, Mr. Isaacs Kekemeke.

The three man disciplinary committee are: Abayomi Adesanya (chairman) Saka Yusuf-Ogunleye (secretary) and Rasheed Badmus as member.

Daily Times learned that the decision to probe Mr. Kekemeke was unanimously adopted by members of the State Executive Committee (SEC) of the party in Ondo state.

They had earlier passed a unanimous vote of “no confidence” on Mr. Kekemeke after he was accused of failing to discharge his duties and neglecting the activities of the party.

He was also accused of failing to discharge his responsibilities, and for neglect and dereliction of duty, among other offenses, in contravention of atticle 21(D)(vi), of the Constitution of the APC,(October 2014 as amended),” the members said.

The members have already chose Ade Adetimehin, the Deputy Chairman of the party to “act” in the position of the state chairman pending the outcome of the report of the disciplinary committee.

Mr. Adetimehin had been receiving defectors mostly from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the fold of the APC on behalf of the party.

Trouble had started for the embattled APC state Chairman after he was accused of running the activities of the party like a “one man business” in 2016.

However, reacting to his suspension Mr. Kekemeke said he remained the bonfide Chairman of the APC in the state.

He spoke in a statement issued to journalists in Akure at the weekend while describing his suspension as a remote controlled, illegal and morally reprehensible conduct of some rancorous elements in the state executives.