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Kano APC crisis worsens, thugs burn Shekarau’s factional  office  

Anthony Iwuoma

The ongoing bad blood in the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kano State chapter may belong in abating as thugs in Thursday set ablaze the factional party office of those loyal to ex-governor Ibrahim Shekarau.
The office was opened following the split of the party into factions.
According to sources, the office was attacked, vandalised and set ablaze by suspected hoodlums opposed to Shekarau.

The former governor and his faction had gained the upper hand over the faction loyal to Governor  Abdullahi Ganduje when a Federal High Court in Abuja nullified the governor’s ward congresses while upholding the one held by the faction loyal to Shekarau.

Justice Hamzat Muazu of the Federal High Court in Maitama, Abuja on Tuesday ruled that the congresses conducted by the faction led by Ibrahim Shekarau, a former governor of the state, and a lawmaker, Sha’aban Sharadaas, is the authentic one thus handing over the party structure in the state to the duo.

Kano APC on July 31, 2021, had conducted its ward congresses where 13,068 ward executive members were unanimously elected unopposed across the 484 wards of the 44 local councils based on consensus.

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However, following the rejection of the consensus option used for the congresses, which allegedly denied some members of the party the opportunity to contest, a parallel congress was conducted and the outcome was submitted to the APC leadership in Abuja.

The Shekarau and Sharadaas faction also went to court to challenge the authenticity of Ganduje’s congresses.

The plaintiffs had through their counsel, Nureni Jimoh, argued that the Ganduje faction did not conduct any election, but merely compiled names of purported winners in the name of a consensus agreement.

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