• Osoba calls for an emergency caucus meeting • Fayemi, Oyegun, Adebayo defend the exercise • Akande spoke our mind, says Lagos party chief, others disagree • Kwara youths allege exclusion, manipulation of the process • Rivers members divided along factional lines When the pioneer national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, dismissed the party’s ongoing membership registration and revalidation exercise as an unnecessary waste of resources, many had thought he was just a lone voice in the wilderness, crying wolf. x But more party stalwarts, yesterday, raised Akande’s solitary observation to an alarm status, warning that the party faces a blowout if issues concerning the exercise were not quickly addressed.