NEWS DIGEST: Leadership Tussle: PDP Dissolves Kano Exco after Court Restraint Order
In what is seen as aftermath of a leadership tussle between two former governors of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau and Rabiu Kwankwaso, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dissolved the Kano State Executive Committee of the party with immediate effect.
This is coming after a Kano High Court restrained the party and its Chairman Uche Secondus from tempering or disfiguring the existing State Executive structure of the Party under its elected Chairman Senator Masaud Jibrin El-Doguwa.
In a court document obtained by the News Digest, the presiding Judge, Justice N. S Umar in his rulings averred that an order has been granted ordering the applicants and the respondents to maintain the status quo ante, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
In the same vein, the Judge said in his rulings that an order of interim injunction is further granted restraining any other person or persons from interfering or tempering with the tenure of the existing leadership structure of PDP in Kano.
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The Judge added that on behalf of the 1st and 2nd respondents, Senator Jibrin El-Doguwa and the PDP, the Court restrains any other person or persons from disturbing and or intimidating the administration of the State, Local Government areas or ward officers from doing anything or taking any steps that are likely to interfere with or disturb the officers tenure which are protected under section 47 (1) and section 223(1) (a) of the 1999 constitution.
The presiding Judge Justice N. S Umar issued an order to the applicants to serve the 1st and 2nd Respondents the originating process outside the jurisdiction of his Court at Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
He then fixed 5th November 2018 to hear the notice on motion.
The former Governor of Kano state, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso is allegedly making frantic efforts to alter the existing leadership structure of the party in Kano state so that he will have 51 percent share of the new structure if put in place.
Meanwhile, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dissolved the Kano State Executive Committee of the party with immediate effect.
The decision came at the end of its meeting on Thursday in Abuja.
Consequently, a Caretaker Committee has been constituted to pilot the affairs of the state chapter of the party. Details of the Caretaker Committee would be made public in due course.
A statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja on Friday, advised all members of the party in Kano state and across the nation should be guided accordingly.
