Bight Newspaper reports that former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) faces a fresh hurdle as a Kano State High Court has granted an ex parte order restraining him from parading himself as a member of the party.
The court also held that henceforth, Ganduje should desist from presiding over all affairs of the National Working Committee of the APC.
The application granted by Justice Usman Na’abba on Wednesday, followed an ex parte motion filed by Dr. Ibrahim Sa’ad on behalf of two executive members of Ganduje’s ward, Dawakin-Tofa Local Government Area, the Assistant Secretary, Laminu Sani and Legal Adviser, Haladu Gwanjo (plaintiffs), who were part of the nine ward executives who suspended Ganduje on Monday.
The court further directed the four parties (respondents) joined in the matter, including the APC, NWC, APC Kano State Working Committee, and Ganduje, to henceforth, maintain status quo ante belum as of April 15, 2024, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit on April 30, 2024.
Justice Na’abba also withheld the State Working Committee of the APC in Kano from interfering with the legally and validly considered decision of executives of Ganduje ward, essentially on actions endorsed by a two-thirds majority of the executives as provided by the party constitution.
Read the ex parte order below: “An order is hereby granted directing all parties in the suit APC (first), APC National Working Committee (second), Kano State Working Committee APC (third), Dr. Abdullah Umar Ganduje (fourth), to maintain status quo ante belum as of April 15, 2024.
“The order thereby restraining the first respondent (APC) from recognising the fourth respondent (Ganduje) as a member of APC and prohibiting the fourth respondent (Ganduje) from presiding over any affairs of the NWC and restraining the state Working Committee from interfering with the legally and validly decision of the ward executives of Ganduje ward.
“That the fourth respondent (Ganduje) is prohibited from parading himself as a member of APC or doing any act that may portray him or seem to be a member of APC pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.”
Bight Newspaper recalls that nine members of the Ganduje ward proclaimed the suspension of the National Chairman of the APC on allegation of corruption by the Kano State Government.
The nine APC executives said they were prompted to act following a petition written by one Ja’afaru Adamu, a member of the APC from the National Chairman’s polling unit.
Mr. Adamu in his petition relayed complains of allegations of corruption charges against the former governor just as he urged the ward leaders to investigate the matter to redeem the dented image of the party and the implication on President Bola Tinubu’s fight against corruption.
Although the chairman and secretary of the ward failed to act on the petition filed on April 8, 2024, nine members of the executives, led by the legal adviser, acted upon the petition, a decision that led to Ganduje’s suspension.
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