The Kano State Excessive Court docket has granted an ex parte order suspending the Nationwide Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, from the occasion.
The order, issued by Justice Usman Malam Na’abba on Tuesday, additionally barred Ganduje from presiding over any exercise of the occasion’s Nationwide Working Committee (NWC).
The choice stemmed from an ex parte movement filed by Dr. Ibrahim Sa’advert, representing members of the manager committee of APC in Ganduje Ward of Dawakin Tofa native authorities space of Kano State.
The Ward Exco members had been a part of a gaggle of 9 ward executives who earlier introduced Ganduje’s suspension from the occasion on Monday.
The court docket, subsequently, gave an interim injunction directing all events concerned, together with the APC, its NWC, Kano State Working Committee of the occasion, and Ganduje himself, to take care of the established order as of April 15, 2024, pending a full listening to on the matter set for April 30.
Justice Na’abba additional ordered the Kano State Working Committee of the APC to chorus from interfering with the choice of the Ganduje Ward executives of the occasion, which was endorsed by a two-third majority as stipulated by the occasion’s structure.
The ward executives acted on a petition submitted by a celebration member from Ganduje’s polling unit, urging them to analyze the accusations bribery and corruption towards the APC nationwide chairman, to guard the occasion’s picture and President Bola Tinubu’s anti-corruption efforts.
Whereas the ward chairman and secretary reportedly didn’t act on the petition filed on April 8, 9 members, led by the authorized adviser, went forward to pronounce Ganduje’s suspension.
Their resolution was instantly rebutted by the state working committee of the occasion, who accused the ward executives of anti-party actions and suspended them for six months.