The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has debunked the report that the state chapter of the party is in deep crisis.
Speaking to our correspondent in Lafia, a party chieftain, Alhaji? Tanko Wambai, who contested? the senatorial seat on the cards of the party, stated that it was the disgruntled members of the PDP that are finding it hard to come to terms with their loss in the last election that go round peddling rumours of crisis in the party.
He further said that the CPC had exposed the evil machinations of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by embarking on meaningful projects.
The PDP, he said, had presided over the massive looting of the state treasury, giving the impression that it was hard to even pay the salaries of civil servants, let alone embark on capital projects, and that the party was therefore at a loss on how to discredit the CPC, which is succeeding far beyond their widest imaginations.
It was alleged that there was a deep crack in the party along the lines of defectors from the All Nigeria Peoples Party (PDP) who were the first to defect into the CPC and who were its first generation of party leaders before the PDP defectors joined them.
Before the PDP members defected massively due to perceived injustice meted out to them during party primaries, the CPC in the state had no structures on the ground and was not seen as a serious contender in the impending elections but with the entry of political big wigs in the state in the likes Barr. Solomon Ewuga, Tanko Almakura, Dr. Joseph Kigbu, and Hajiya Rakiya Haruna Kassim, the party assumed instant prominence in the state.
This state of affairs called for the re-structuring the party to win elections. For instance the chairman of the CPC in Awe local government was a 19-year-old boy who hardly knew how to obtain a party membership card, and several other cases where those at the helm of affairs had no experience in party politics let alone know how to lead a party to success.
Alhaji Wambai, however, pointed out that in an effort to keep one united family, the party had organised several workshops and seminars for the party leadership so as to equip them with the necessary know-how