The Deputy National Chairman (North), of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Lawal Shuaibu, has faulted the decision of the National Working Committee of the party to dissolve the entire party executive in Zamfara State.
The NWC is led by the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, with Shuaibu among the members.
Recall that the APC in two separate statements signed by its spokesperson, Yekini Nabena, announced the dissolution of the Zamfara State executive and all executive committees across the state.
However, Shuaibu, who is from Zamfara State, issued a counter statement to say “the news going round that the APC Executive have been dissolved is not true.”
Shuaibu said the NWC cannot dissolve the party executives in the state because of the existence a subsisting court order.
He said the order had asked the disagreeing parties in a petition challenging the legality of the process through which the state executives emerged to maintain the status quo and “should not take any step that would render nugatory the subject of the litigation which is the position of the party before 5th of June 2018.”
The deputy chairman said the NWC and the party in the state were both served the court order.
He said the National Headquarters of the party “can therefore not take any action except to ensure members of the executives do comply.”
In his statement earlier, APC spokesperson, Yekini Nabena, also said the NWC-inaugurated committee for Zamfara State is to conduct the governorship and legislative primaries in the state.
He said the state governor, Abdul’aziz Yari, and the dissolved executives in the state “should not interfere in the primary elections in the state.”
He said the governorship and legislative primaries will hold from Saturday to Sunday.
