The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the order of the Kano High Court, restraining Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje from parading himself as a member of the party.
The Court, in an ex parte order issued on Wednesday, by Justice Usman Malam Na’Abba, affirmed Monday’s suspension of Dr Ganduje by members of Ganduje Ward in the Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State.
The court further restrained Ganduje from parading himself as a member of the APC pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
But in a swift reaction on Wednesday, the APC said the order remains “a nullity and of no effect”.
National Legal Adviser, Prof Abdulkarim Kana, who spoke with newsmen at the APC national secretariat in Abuja, maintained that the Kano High Court lacks the jurisdiction to hear a matter from non-card-carrying members of the APC on the affairs of the party.
He alleged that the court order was borne out of a desperate desire by the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to undermine the prospects of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu getting a second term mandate as reasons for persecuting Ganduje in Kano state.
The party described those who sought the ex-parte motion before Justice Na’Abba on behalf of the Ganduje ward, Dawakin-Tofa Local were not only imposters, but fake persons unknown to the party.
“The Court has no jurisdiction on the issue. The persons who appeared before him are frauds, impersonators. One of the so-called defendants is even here with us in Abuja. The Court has gone too far on this issue,” he said.
“We heard this afternoon that they have gone to court to obtain an unlawful order which cannot be enforced. It was obtained by fraud. The individuals who obtained the order are not APC members. We don’t know them”, he said, while berating Justice Na’Abba for compromising his stance by granting the ex-parte order even without hearing from the APC, APC NWC, APC Kano State Working Committee, and Ganduje who are the respondents on the matter
Meanwhile, speaking when he received officials of the Kano chapter of the APC at the national secretariat of the party on a solidarity visit on Wednesday, Ganduje thanked the party executive members, and ward officials from Ganduje Ward for dissociating themselves from the purported plot to unseat him as National chairman of the party.
Accusing the Governor Abba Yusuf NNPP led administration in Kano State of masterminding the act, as part of the grand plan to whittle down the electoral fortunes of the APC in Kano State, he wondered why the NNPP would go out of its way to gather imposters in a desperate bid to score political goals.
He also claimed that the machinations against him by the NNPP-led administration were aimed at covering up for their inability to deliver good governance in Kano state.
