A coalition of Kwara State All Progressives Congress (APC) youths has called on the party leadership to consider Hon. Saheed Popoola as the speaker of the state house of assembly.
The spokesperson for the coalition, Mr Kunle Asonibare, said this in a statement Wednesday in Abuja.
The coalition said the assembly resume in June, the position of the speaker should be given to Poopla because of his unwavering loyalty to the party.
The APC in the state has 24 house of assembly newly elected members. Popoola is an incumbent member of the KSHA, representing Ojomu Balogun Constituency in Offa.
He was the only House member who refused to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when Senator Bukola Saraki left the APC in 2018.
Asonibare said that the coalition was concerned about rewarding loyalty and commitment to party principle and ideal, adding that Popoola barring all zoning arrangement must be considered for the job.
He said that the post of speaker of state assembly demanded that a committed and trusted member of the party should be given the job.
He said that the youths in the party were in talk with the necessary stakeholders to give them reasons why Popoola deserved the job.
Asonibare said that Popoola showed an uncanny loyalty during the turbulent time when the whole KSAH defected to the PDP, adding that such person would not betray the party.(NAN)
