The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said the Kano High Court order restraining Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje from parading himself as the National Chairman of the party remains a nullity and is of no effect.
The APC alleged that the court order was borne out of a desperate desire by the opposition 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.
APC’s National Legal Adviser, Prof Abdulkarim Kana who briefed reporters Wednesday at the 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.
The party described those who sought the ex-parte motion before Justice Ibrahim Sa’ad 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 a fraud, impersonators. One of the so-called defendant 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 ate not APC members. We don’t know them.”
The party noted that it is unfortunate that Justice Sa’ad compromise 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.
Ganduje who spoke when he received officials of the Kano chapter of the APC at the national secretariat of the party on a solidarity visit 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 opposition NNPP would go out of its ways to gather imposters in a desperate bid to score political goals.
He also claimed that the machinations against him by the NNPP led administration was aimed at covering up for their inability to deliver good governance in Kano state.
Said he: “In fact, what is happening is that it 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 in and also destruction of political morality in Kano state.
“We are battle ready to take over their government. They are concerned that Kano produces the highest votes. They are so concerned that we will repeat the same feat for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu again. We will ensure that in 2027 , there is no vacancy for any presidential candidate from Kano and from Nigeria that would win any election.
“They are out to create confusion in our party so that we will not have the courage to take over our government in Kano state. They want to ensure Tinubu does not have the intimidating votes he used to have from Kano state. We will tell them their intentions will fail, that it is impossible, that it is a falsehood.
“I am assuring the President that our party in Kano is solid, it is battle ready in order to keep the votes for president very high, even the highest in Nigeria.
“We have written to the IGP, the DG DSS who are handling the case because we have their pictures, names, and we know their political leanings. Some of them were captured even wearing kwankwasjyya cap. They were so daft and insensitive that they couldn’t camouflage properly.”
