Protesters, Rivers chapter ask him to step apart
Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, Ahmad Aruwa, has accused the presidency of working towards the occasion’s suspended Nationwide Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
The allegation was contained in a brief viral video, the place he claimed that some forces within the presidency have been hell-bent on seeing to the exit of the previous state governor.
He warned of the dire consequence of such motion, reminding the so-called plotters that Ganduje performed a key function in President Ahmed Tinubu’s victory on the 2023 common elections.
“We are going to confront anybody inside the APC who dares to problem Ganduje, no matter their standing or political affect,” he threatened.
Aruwa flayed the President for allegedly abandoning the embattled chairman at this attempting time regardless of the massive help he reportedly acquired in Kano via him.
The spokesperson restated: I solemnly pledge that if anybody is to confront Ganduje inside the APC, it will inevitably result in a considerable political disaster, which we’re very able to battle again.
“No matter the person’s id, we’re aware of the plotting and machinations orchestrated by sure APC members on the Villa.
“It was solely Ganduje who facilitated Tinubu’s presence in Kano when there was an absence of help from others.”
Dependable sources on the Villa, who pleaded for anonymity, revealed that Ganduje’s travails started when he reportedly failed to draw Governor Abba Yusuf and his political godfather, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to the ruling occasion.
THIS comes because the ex-governor secured an ex parte injunction restraining additional motion on his ‘purported’ suspension as a member of the occasion.
Within the software granted Wednesday by the Federal Excessive Court docket in Kano, Justice A. U Liman ordered the suspension introduced by the Ganduje Ward to be halted.
The ruling got here within the software by the previous governor to cease the additional motion towards him, whereas searching for enforcement of his elementary proper within the substantive go well with slated for April 30.
Joined within the go well with as respondents have been the 9 ward executives that initiated the ‘sacking’, Nigeria Police Pressure (NPF), Division of State Companies (DSS) and Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
The order reads: “That each one the respondents, their servants, brokers or privies are hereby restrained from Implementing and/or giving impact to the purported choice reached through the purported emergency assembly of the alleged govt members of APC Ganduje Ward, held at Ganduje Ward of Dawakin Tofa Native authorities Space.
“That each one the events are hereby mandated to take care of established order earlier than the purported emergency assembly of the alleged govt members of APC Ganduje Ward, and to remain motion in respect of this matter pending the listening to and willpower of the substantive software.”
Justice Usman Na’Abba of the state Excessive Court docket had equally restrained APC, its NWC and others from additional motion within the matter till the listening to and willpower of the substantive go well with.
Each judges have adjourned the listening to to April 30.
MEANWHILE, scores of protesters, yesterday, referred to as on Ganduje to step apart within the curiosity of the occasion, forward of the Ondo governorship ballot.
The marchers, who stormed the occasion’s nationwide secretariat in Abuja, warned towards a repeat of the Zamfara expertise, the place all victorious members misplaced their seats to the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) on the 2019 ballot
Beneath the aegis of the Guardian of Democracy and Improvement Initiative (GoDDI), the protesters pleaded with Ganduje to honour the rule of legislation.
A few of their placards learn: “We don’t need what occurred in Zamfara to occur in Ondo”, “Respect the courtroom order from Kano State to save lots of our occasion in Ondo state” and “Each member of APC is competent to deal with the affairs of the occasion, Ganduje ought to step apart. We don’t need one other catastrophe in Ondo State.”
Collectively led by Danesi Momoh and Abdulkadir Shuaibu, the protesters, who learn an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, and addressed to the nationwide secretary of the occasion, Surajudeen Ajibola, argued that the continued keep of Ganduje in workplace would intrude with something that has to do with Ondo APC major.
ALSO, the Emeka Beke-led faction of the APC in Rivers State has urged Ganduje to obey occasion protocols by briefly stepping apart.
At a media briefing in Port Harcourt, the Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju, emphasised the importance of occasion constitutionality.
He cited Article 9 of the APC’s structure which states that the authority to droop or dismiss members resides with the ward executives and members.
Nwauju added that Article 21(3) outlined the disciplinary procedures, which start on the ward too.