The crisis rocking the United Kingdom chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the outcome of its congress has escalated.
Aggrieved members have threatened to go to court over their alleged disenfranchisement unless the National Working Committee (NWC) intervenes in the leadership tussle.
The aggrived chieftains said they were tactically fenced out from participating in the congress.
The top party official was in London a few days ago to conduct a congress, which has continued to receive condemnations from the secretary of the interim committee, who alleged exclusion.
In the new twist, a party member, Prince Olusanjo Adebola Olurebi, had, through his lawyers AXIS Solicitors, petitioned the party’s headquarters, alleging irregularities in the congress.
In the petition, Olurebi’s solicitor, said: “As a legitimate member of the APC-UK, our client and several members of the party in the UK are completely disenfranchised by the failure of the system put in place on January 13, 2024. The party official came to the UK to harmonise and conjoin both national parties, but failed to do so.
“As a consequence, our client has been denied his legitimate right to participate and vote in the congress of the party’s chapter to which he belongs as a fully paid-up member. Similarly, other members have been deprived of their legitimate right to participate in the election, which is the basis of democracy.
Olurebi, who is the Asiwaju of Egbaland in Manchester, said the Interim Committee inaugurated had failed woefully and should be disbanded with a new team set up to pilot the party in the United Kingdom.
He said the party official took sides with some people to conduct a congress when the interim committee had only met once.