The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State has reportedly passed a vote of confidence in the senator-elect for Taraba South, Emmanuel Jimkuta.
Chairman of the party in the local government, Alhaji Mijinyawa Salihu, passed the resolution yesterday in Jalingo, saying the party does not have factional executives in the local government.
Salihu accused those who had earlier announced Jimkuta’s suspension as non-APC members ‘who were hired for such a dirty assignment.
He said,
“We just want to respond to the purported expulsion of our senator-elect, Emmanuel Jimkuta, by a group of people parading themselves as the party executives in Takum.
“Members of the executive of APC in Takum state that there is no factional executive of the party in our local government; we remain the only and authentic executive members.
“Members of the group which signed the purported expulsion letter are not members of APC in Takum.”
Salihu described the masterminds of the purported expulsion as the ‘mercenaries recruited from an opposition party by some aggrieved members who lost out at the primaries.