Attai Audu Jos
North Central All Progressive Congress (APC) Forum has rejected the dissolution of Benue State executives of the party by the embattled National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, saying it is not only unacceptable but is illegitimate.
The forum’s Chairman, Alhaji Saleh Mandung Zazzaga, who addressed newsmen on Saturday in Jos the Plateau State capital on the issue ,said Ganduje has no legitimacy whatsoever to suspend the executive members of the party from Benue which is under the North Central region that has remain opposed to his chairmanship position till date.
Zazzaga who was also a member of the Presidential Campaign Council in the last election explained that the same executive members Ganduje is illegitimately dissolving are the same they worked with at different levels to win the Benue State governorship and other key positions for the APC.
Besides, he said, the North Central APC has from the onset been opposed to Ganduje being the Chairman the National Chairman of the party as that position because according to the party arrangement, that position is supposed to be for the North Central region, after Abdullahi Adamu’ resignation, and not Ganduje who is from the North West state of Kano.
The Chairman stressed that a High Court in Makurdi on Wednesday restrained Ganduje from dissolving the state executive led by led by Hon. Augustine Agada, but that on that same day, the Ganduje led NWC announced the dissolution of the state exco despite the court order, and as such it is a contempt charge against Ganduje for disobeying a court order.
According to Zazzaga, Ganduje likes disobeying court orders and that he is much interested in incurring legal liabilities for the party in many fronts, following the court case against him, including that of his ward in Kano State, the North Central APC, among other corruption matters when he served as Kano State Governor.
He said they will not accept the dissolution of the Benue executives of the party, and that they have already met and have taken a decision on that, and will come up with further action on the matter if the steps are not retraced.
Zazzaga noted that clearly Ganduje and his actions are already destroying the APC, and that if nothing is done to urgently halt him, he would destroy the party very soon and give their opponents an edge over them.
He reiterated their efforts from the North Central to the success of the party since 2015 until last year which they did not only tremendously contributed to the winning of President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 election, but also clinched five out of the six governorships from the region.
And with their performance all along, he said, they have contributed to the progress of the APC than Ganduje who even lost his state of Kano to the NNPP and also incurring legal liabilities for the party, as well as well as chasing active and prominent people from the party due to his personal grievances.
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