A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State is holding a parallel congress in the state.
The faction, led by Fouad Oki, is challenging the other faction of the party led by a former governor of the state, Bola Tinubu.
Oki, until recently a loyalist of Tinubu, was the campaign director for Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s 2015 gubernatorial contest and also acted in that capacity for both Tinubu and former governor Babatunde Fashola.
He had in February, launched the Broom United Movement, a faction of aggrieved party members.
While the faction is holding its parallel congress at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, the Tinubu faction is holding its own congress at the party secretariat, Acme Road, Ikeja.
The Oki faction has claimed that it will elect officials into the state executive of the party at the event which has no representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
