The All Progressives Congress, APC has said former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje is still the party’s national chairman.
This is according to the National Publicity Secretary of Felix Morka in a statement in an interview on Arise Television.
Morka said the ruling party will not honour the initial court order affirming Ganduje’s suspension as national chairman.
According to him, the national chairman of the party has not been served any summons concerning the initial court order restraining him, noting that the party has thrown its weight behind the recent Kano Federal High Court ruling calling for a stay of the order.
Recall that the political drama in Kano took a fresh twist on Wednesday after a Federal High Court presided over by another judge, Justice A.M Liman, halted the purported suspension of Ganduje by his ward executives in Dawakin Tofa Local Government area of the state.
The ruling was given after Ganduje filed an exparte motion seeking to enforce his fundamental right to a fair hearing.
The respondents in the application are the Nigerian Police, Department of State Services, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and nine other individuals.
Reacting to the development, Morka said it was the right thing to do on the basis that those who masterminded the suspension were not recognised members of the party.
He said, “The order issued by the first court was very disturbing, for some reasons.
First, the plaintiffs who purportedly filed that action are not recognised members of our party and therefore shouldn’t have the locus standi to invoke the authority of the court to make any such order.
“Secondly, every lawyer in this country is aware that from the Supreme Court up to the NJC, there is this cautiousness that judges don’t make orders that are far-reaching in effect on an ex parte motion or application.”