The Kano State High Court has granted an ex parte order that prohibits the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, from representing himself as a member of the party.
The court also directed Ganduje to refrain from presiding over the affairs of the National Working Committee of the APC.
This order was granted following 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 plaintiffs were part of the nine executives who suspended Ganduje on Monday.
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Justice Usman Na’abba ordered that the four parties joined in the matter, including the APC, NWC, APC Kano State Working Committee, and Ganduje, should maintain status quo ante belum as of April 15, 2024, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit on April 30, 2024.
The court also held that the State Working Committee APC Kano should not interfere with the legally and validly considered decision of executives of Ganduje ward, essentially on action endorsed by a two-thirds majority of the executives as provided by the party constitution.
The ex parte order stated 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.”
Ganduje was suspended over allegations of corruption charges against him by the Kano State Government, as stated in a petition written by one Ja’afaru Adamu, a member of the APC from the National Chairman’s polling unit.
The petition prompted nine members of the executives, led by the legal adviser, to take action, a decision that led to Ganduje’s suspension.
