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Alleged Suspension Is Null, Void – State Publicity Secretary
With barely one month to the governorship election, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Hajia Aishatu Binnani has been suspended by her Yola-South Local Council chapter.
According to a statement issued, yesterday, in Yola and signed by the 21 executive members, they accused Binnani of refusing to appear before a disciplinary committee to answer allegations leveled against her.
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According to the statement: “The Yola-South chapter of the APC received and reviewed a petition against Binnani from a member of the party from Bako Ward – Auwal Hamma Adama. Adama accused her of causing disunity among members in the ward.”
While speaking to journalists in Yola, the local council APC chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed, who confirmed the suspension, urged the state executive to uphold the suspension to instill discipline in the party. The suspension is to last for six months, if not reversed by the state executive members.
But in a swift reaction, the State APC Publicity Secretary, Mohammed Abdullahi, said the constitution of the party did not give local council party executives any power to suspend a member of the party, except at the ward level.
Abdullahi said the decision was an exercise in futility, null and void and of no effect whatsoever.
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