The State Working Committee (SWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State has suspended the Gwadabawa ward executives of the party for announcing the suspension of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, from the party.
The APC executives in Gwadabawa Ward in Yola North LGA, where Boss Mustapha has his political base was on Thursday reported as having suspended the SGF, allegedly for not contributing to the success of the party.
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The state Exco of the party, however, moved against the ward executives, Saturday, describing Boss Mustapha’s purported suspension as “unconstitutional and malicious”, and went ahead to pronounce its own suspension of the ward officials.
Secretary of the party in the state, Dr Raymond Chidama, who addressed newsmen at the party’s state secretariat in Yola, said the SWC received the resolution of Yola North Executive on the unconstitutional conduct of the ward Exco members who went without cogent reason and due process to announce to the media that they had suspended Boss Mustapha from the party.
The party scribe stressed that the suspension on the ward excos followed the recommendation of the Yola North Local Government APC officials, who called for formation of a caretaker committee to replace the errant ward Excos.
Chidama said the SWC, upon receipt of the report, formed another committee which studied the report of the Yola North Exco and ratified it.
He recalled how ward and state excos respectively recently made similar moves by suspending the North East National Vice Chairman of the party, Mustapha Salihu and the governorship candidate, Senator Aishatu Ahmed Dahiru (Binani), both of which were immediately invalidated, while cautioning lower level party executives to desist from such acts.
He emphasised that the Gwadabawa Ward excos were an embarrassment to the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari.
He added that the state Working Committee had also approved a seven-man caretaker committee to take the place of the suspended executives.
The state party secretary said, “All the removed and suspended members of Gwadabawa ward are hereby directed to hand-over all party properties in their possession to the chairman of Yola North Local Government Area immediately.”