APC crisis: I’m still in charge, says Ganduje as court stops suspension

• Ganduje, whose purported suspension by his ward executives was overturned by court, boasted that he remains in charge of the party.

Former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje , says his position as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, remains intact and not under any threat.

Ganduje, whose purported suspension by his ward executives was overturned by court, boasted that he is still in charge of the party.

Justice A. M Liman of the Federal High Court in Kano had on Thursday halted Ganduje’s suspension on Thursday.

The court also restrained all parties involved in the matter and 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 a suit filed by Ganduje 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.

The court’s ruling was sequel to a motion ex parte filed by Ganduje for the enforcement of his fundamental right to fair hearing.

While reacting to the development, Ganduje expressed gratitude to the party executive members and ward officials from his Ward for not being part of the purported plot to remove him from the party’s leadership and membership.

He said his purported suspension was part the plan of Governor Abba Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, to undermine and destabilise the APC in the state ahead of the 2027 general election and other electoral contests.

He disclosed that the NNPP government had infiltrated the APC in Kano with the sole intention of destroying it.

The APC national chairman said, “In fact, what is happening is that it is an incursion into our political party by the NNPP government of Kano in order to destroy our party.

“They are so concerned that in their first year in office, they have seen their failures right from the destruction of the economy of Kano State to increased political violence in and also destruction of political morality in Kano State.”