By Mohammed Danlami
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje could well be said to be, or perhaps not to be, the proverbial cat with nine lives going by the political hurdles before him.
It is not very clear if he will cross the hurdles equally well, and indeed unscathed, but the uneasy storm around his current controversial suspension as a member of the APC by his Kano ward is still developing, and disturbingly so.
This suspension imbroglio is coming just a little while after the dust around his alleged arraignment over some claimed corruption charges is still to die down.
This development will certainly be of public interest to see how the dust will finally settle down, or will refuse to do so.
The Ganduje ward chapter of All APC in Dawakin Tofa Local Government area in Kano state had, on Monday, suspended the party’s National Chairman and former governor of the state,
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
The party’s Legal Adviser of the Ganduje ward, Halliru Gwanjo had announced the suspension at a Press Conference in Kano on Monday.
Gwanjo said they decided to suspend Ganduje from the party at the ward level due to the allegations of corruptions against him by the state government.
According to Gwanjo, the suspension begins from April 15, until when he is cleared of the corruption allegations.
Nine executives of the party signed the suspension notice at the ward level.
The Kano state government had recently dragged Ganduje to court over allegations of bribery and would be arraigned on April 17.
When contacted, the Chairman of the APC, Kano state Chapter, Abdullahi Abbas said the party, at the Local Government level, had taken decisive action against the purported suspension of Ganduje.
In a swift reaction, Abbas told newsmen in a telephone interview that the chairman of the party in Dawakin-Tofa, Ganduje’s hometown, told him that those behind the purported suspension had been caught in anti-party activities with their record of meetings with opposition.
The chairman said the State Working Committee had already suspended those behind Ganduje’s suspension f or six months, disclosing that a special investigation panel had been set up to verify several allegations against them.
“We at the state level, have since adopted the decisions of the Local Government Party leadership, and we have commenced investigation into the allegations of anti-party
activities against them.”
