{
  "id": 2481654,
  "title": "Kwara APC Crisis Deepens as Mustapha Dumps Party, Picks PDP Ticket",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/kwara-apc-crisis-deepens-as-mustapha-dumps-party-picks-pdp-ticket",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-22T02:39:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/08/22/kwara-apc-crisis-deepens-as-mustapha-dumps-party-picks-pdp-ticket/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State has intensified as Senator Saliu Mustapha, who chairs the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, has resigned from the party to join the People's Democratic Party (PDP). This follows weeks of speculation and growing discontent within the APC over the conduct and outcome of its recent governorship primary.\n\nHon. Kolo Jiya, a prominent member from Patigi Local Government Area, has also left the APC to join the PDP, with intentions to secure the PDP ticket for the Kwara North Senatorial District. The defections came after protests by 10 APC governorship aspirants who rejected the selection of Salihu Yahaya Danladi as the party's preferred candidate for the 2027 governorship election.\n\nMustapha stated that he left the APC in alignment with a group of aggrieved members, known as the G15, Otoge Progressives (TOP), and the elders’ caucus, who chose the PDP as the most suitable platform to challenge the ruling party's structure in Kwara. He maintained that his decision was not due to a disagreement with President Bola Tinubu, but with the way APC was managed in Kwara.\n\nDespite the party's efforts to reconcile discordant members, the resignations of Mustapha and Jiya suggest that these initiatives have yet to bear fruit. This development is a major setback for the APC in the state, as they face potential defeats in the upcoming elections.",
  "summary": ".Says he backs Tinubu ·Jiya, other aggrieved members follow as party reconciliation efforts falter Hammed Shittu in Ilorin and Sunday Aborisade in Abuja The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State",
  "key_points": [
    "Senator Saliu Mustapha resigns from APC to join PDP",
    "Kolo Jiya leaves APC to contest PDP ticket for Kwara North",
    "APC crisis deepens with defections and party management disputes"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The defections of Senator Saliu Mustapha and Hon. Kolo Jiya to the PDP deal a significant blow to the APC in Kwara State, indicating that reconciliation efforts have not quelled internal dissent.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}