A faction of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Kaduna state has
suspended the governor of the state, Nasir el-Rufai, for six months.
The governor’s suspension is coming three days after the faction,
known as Kaduna Restoration Group, issued him a query and suspended
three of his aides.
The party faction led by the Senator representing Kaduna North
Central, Suleiman Hunkuyi, had accused El-Rufai of “anti- party
activities and anti-human activities.The Senator said if El-Rufai did
not respond to the query within 48 hours, “the state working committee
will sit down and deliberate.”
But in a statement on Sunday, the faction said the governor refused
to honour the invitation to defend himself over the allegations levelled
against him.
It resolved to suspend him for six months with immediate effect.
The statement said, “Sequel to the 48 hours ultimatum issued to the
Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir Ahmad Elrufa’i by the Kaduna state
working committee of the APC to give explanations and defence on the
allegations labelled against him, the SWC under chairmanship of S.I.
“Danladi Wada on Saturday 17th February 2018 convened, resolved and
do consider and ratified the findings and recommendations of the
Disciplinary and Fact Finding Committee put before it in accordance with
Article 21 (B) (iii) of the APC Constitution, to the effect that having
the governor failed to respond accordingly, he stands suspended for a
period of 6 months from the APC with immediate effect.”