Abdullahi Ganduje Affirms Position as APC National Chairman Following Court Order

Former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has asserted his position as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the reversal of his purported suspension by his ward executives.

Justice A. M. Liman of the Federal High Court in Kano halted Ganduje’s suspension on Thursday, also barring all respondents and their agents from implementing the decisions reached at the APC executive meeting 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 instructed the parties to maintain the status quo before the purported emergency meeting of the alleged executive members of the APC ward.

In his reaction, Ganduje expressed gratitude to the party executive members and ward officials from Ganduje Ward for distancing themselves from the purported plot to remove him from the party’s leadership and membership.

He attributed the development to Governor Abba Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), accusing him of attempting to weaken the APC in the state ahead of the 2027 general election and other electoral contests.

Ganduje stated, “What is happening 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 and the destruction of political morality in Kano State.”