Former governor of Kano State, Senator Abdullahi Ganduje said he is still in charge as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), following the reversal of his purported suspension by his ward executives.
The party politics within the Kano APC took a new twist as Justice A. M Liman of the Federal High Court in Kano stopped Ganduje’s suspension
The Court also restrained all the respondents, their agents from implementing the decisions reached at the executive meeting of the APC held at the Ganduje Ward of Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area on April 15 2024, pending the determination and hearing of his substantive application for the enforcement of his fundamental rights.
The Judge also asked the parties to maintain the status quo before the purported emergency meeting of the alleged executive members of the APC ward.
Justice Liman gave the order while ruling on a motion exparte filed by Ganduje for the enforcement of his fundamental right to fair hearing.
The case has been fixed for April 30 for hearing.
Ganduje was suspended by his ward executive.
But the APC said the masterminds are members of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and filed a petition to the National Judicial Council (NJC), alleging that the judge who gave the order has been compromised.
On Wednesday, the Kano State High Court granted an ex parte order restraining Ganduje from parading himself as a member of the party, thereby affirming his suspension.
But the APC National Working Committee (NWC) described the order as fraudulent and unlawful.
The APC National Legal Adviser, Prof. Abdulkarim Kana stated this while briefing journalists shortly after the APC Ward Executives from Ganduje Ward in Dawakin-Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State visited the party’s National Chairman in his office in Abuja.
