Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held its congress across the state's 193 wards on Wednesday.

The exercise was peaceful and carnival-like in many of the wards visited by this reporter in Ilorin, the state capital, and a few other areas, including Asa, Ekiti, and Baruten.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the event at the party's secretariat in Ilorin, the party's state chairman, Sunday Fagbemi, said all the new leaders emerged through affirmation.

"It is an affirmative congress, but it is a constitutional responsibility of the party to go through the process."

The Chairperson of the Congress Committee and Deputy Chairperson of APC in the state, Abdullahi Samari, said all partic...