SAN FRANCISCO, November 13, (THEWILL) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto State has announced the “expulsion” of the party’s national vice chairman, North West, Inuwa Abdulkadir, for alleged anti-party activities.
Trouble began for him after a member of the party, Naibi Abubakar, wrote a complaint letter to the ward chairman of the party accusing Abdulkadir of “continuous absence from party activities and meetings.”
Abubakar who identified himself as a bonafide member of the APC with registration number SOK/SON/04006510 said since his election as the national vice chairman of the party, Abdulkadir “did not convene any zonal meeting of the APC in order to assess the fortunes of the party following defections to PDP of many party chieftains and members from the zone.”
Hed also said Abdulkadir failed to attend or participate in any of the meetings held to discuss the mode of primary to be adopted by the state chapter of the APC during the just concluded primaries to elect candidates of the party.
He also said despite being an automatic delegate, the national vice chairman failed to participate in the direct primary conducted in the state to nominate President Muhammadu Buhari as the APC presidential candidate and was also absent when primaries were held for the governorship and other elective offices for the APC in Sokoto.
“Inuwa Abdulkadir ridiculed the Sokoto state chapter of the APC by not sitting among other delegates from Sokoto State at the special convention of the APC where President Muhammadu Buhari was affirmed as the candidate of the APC for 2019 Presidential election,“ he said.
The petitioner also alleged that Abdulkadir had openly told a gathering of members of APC in Sokoto that the current deputy governor, Ahmad Aliyu, is not the leader of the party in the state and that former governor and serving senator, Aliyu Wamakko, is not one of the leaders of the party in the state.
Abubakar also said since the defection of Governor Aminu Tambuwal to the PDP, Abdulkadir “has not made any public statement to renounce his allegiance to the governor.”
He said Abdulkadir had in fact “told APC members and supporters that Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal is the only political leader in Sokoto state.”
The petitioner said Abdulkadir is still maintaining his allegiance to Tambuwal and by extension the PDP, because he has failed to resign as the chairman Governing Council of Sokoto State University, a position given to him by Tambuwal.
Following the receipt of the complaint from, the Magajin Gari A ward appointed a disciplinary committee made up of five members on October 19 to investigate the allegations against Abdulkadir.
The letter announcing the committee signed by the ward chairman, Shamsu Bello, and Secretary, Bello Ibrahim, asked the committee to “invite the person complained against to defend himself on the allegations made against him within the stipulated period accordingly.”
The disciplinary committee, headed by the ward chairman, Bello, subsequently submitted a report to the Sokoto North Local Government chapter of the party, recommending the expulsion of Abdulkadir after it found him guilty of all the allegations raised against him.
In the same vein, the Sokoto North executive committee in a resolution signed by all the 18 officials of the local government chapter ratified the report of the Magajin Gari A ward and forwarded a report to the state chapter of the party recommending the expulsion of Abdulkadir.
The local government chapter particularly noted a content of the report submitted by the ward executives in paragraphs 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 “which shows that Inuwa Abdulkadir has ridiculed the party and made derogatory comments against leaders of the party in Sokoto state.”
Sokoto North APC forwarded its recommendation to the state chapter of the party agreeing with the recommendation to expel Abdulkadir from the party.
The state executive council then met over the matter and also resolved to uphold the decision of Magajin Gari A ward to expel the national vice chairman for anti-party activities.
