The All Progressives Congress, APC said only the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) has the power to suspend its National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje.
The National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdulkarim Kana stated this in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today.
His comment comes as a reaction to the recent controversial suspension of Ganduje, by different factional excos of his ward.
Recall that the two factions of the Ganduje ward had suspended the membership of Ganduje, for alleged corruption among other offenses, during his tenure as governor of Kano.
However, the State Working Committee of the APC in Kano swiftly nullified the suspension and took disciplinary actions against the ward executives.
A Federal High Court in Kano also issued an ex parte order temporarily halting the implementation of the suspension until the case is heard and determined.
A Kano State High Court judge who earlier upheld Ganduje’s suspension also vacated the order suspending ex-Kano governor as the National Chairman of the APC.
Speaking on the development, Kana said no organ of the party has the right to suspend any member except the NWC.
He said, according to the party’s constitution, before such action could be carried out, all procedures must have been followed.
“All those procedures must be exhausted for such penalties to be imposed but as a penalty pending completion of an investigation, no organ of the APC has the power to suspend any member pending investigation except the national working committee,” he said.