The Zamfara State faction of the All Progressives Congress loyal to Senator Kabir Marafa, said the decision of the Mai Mala Buni-led National Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, to sack its chairman would spell doom for the party.
State Publicity Secretary of the faction, Alhaji Bello Bakyasuwa, said this in an interview in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to him, the decision of the national caretaker committee to empower the faction of the party loyal to the former governor of the state, Abdullaziz Yari, to expel members of the Marafa-led faction, was contemptuous of an existing court order.
He explained that a court of competent jurisdiction had ordered the dissolution of the state factional executives and ordered for fresh congresses.
Bakyasuwa said, “Are you not aware of the court ruling that dissolved all the factions and ordered for fresh congresses? Won’t that amount to court contempt?
“Anyway, we have not been contacted by anybody; we just saw the papers like you did in social media. We will react when we are officially contacted.”
Asked whether the Marafa faction had withdrawn its case against the party, as directed by the National Executive Committee of the party, Bakyasuwa replied, “As directed by who? When? There was never such communication between us and the national headquarters or from anybody acting for or on behalf of the caretaker committee.
“Anyway, we have not been contacted by anybody; we just saw the papers like you did in social media. We will react when we are officially contacted.”
Asked whether the Marafa faction had withdrawn its case against the party, as directed by the National Executive Committee of the party, Bakyasuwa replied, “As directed by who? When? There was never such communication between us and the national headquarters or from anybody acting for or on behalf of the caretaker committee.
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