A faction of the All Progressives Congress has dissociated itself from the crisis rocking the party in the western axis of Kogi State.
They therefore passed a vote of confidence on the member representing Kogi/Koton-Karfe Constituency in
the state assembly, Hon. Muhammed Zakari Osewu.

Apparently reacting to the threat by some section of the party leaders to recall Hon. Zakari in a statement in Lokoja, the groups enjoined the elders to steer clear of the unfolding scenario in the state assembly.
The groups comprising of Kogi APC Restoration Alert, APC Integrity Group and Unity Vanguard at an emergency meeting in Koton-Karfe yesterday, said their position was as a result of the lawmaker’s commitment to speedily taking the area to enviable heights.
In a statement jointly signed by the president of Unity Vanguard, Hon. Aliyu Ibrahim and and secretary of Kogi Restoration Alert, Usman Abubakar Babaohi and Salihu Abubakar Sadiq, the groups posited that those threatening to recall the lawmaker are working against the interest of the people of the constituency.
It further alleged that the state governor, Yahaya Bello was after the lawmakers who “refused to dance to his tunes”, expressing the position of Hon. Zakari in seeking the nod of the people of the constituency in any crucial matter.
The groups therefore warned those threatening the harmonious and peaceful co-existence of the people of the area to desist, stressing that they are prepared to lay down their lives to defend the mandate freely given to the lawmaker in last year’s general elections.
It therefore enjoined the teeming supporters and loyalists of APC in the area to remain calm and law abiding, maintaining that those working against the interest of the people would be disgraced in due course.