Zamfara APC Faction Predicts Doom For Party Over Sack Threat

A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State has predicted doom for the party over an alleged bid by the Chairman, Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, to sack its chairman.

The faction, which is loyal to Senator Kabir Marafa, stated this through its State Publicity Secretary, Bello Bakyasuwa, in an interview with repoters in Abuja.

Bakyasuwa said it would be contemptuous of an existing court order for the caretaker committee to empower the faction of the party loyal to the former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdullaziz Yari, to expel members of the Marafa-led faction.

According to him, a court of competent jurisdiction had ordered the dissolution of the state factional executives and called for fresh congresses.

He 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 the social media. We will react when we are officially contacted.”

He also spoke on whether the faction loyal to Marafa had withdrawn its case against the party as directed by National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party.

The publicity secretary said: “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.

“Is it possible for the National Headquarters to ask our opponents to sanction us? Is it possible for the ruling party under President Buhari to abuse the court?

“I thought the caretaker committee was constituted to address APC problems not to aggravate it. You don’t solve a problem by becoming part of it or taking sides. You solve it by being fair and just.

“Taking side at this point will only spell doom for APC in Zamfara and I don’t think the Mai Mala committee will want to risk that.”

The Secretary of the national caretaker committee of the APC, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, had in a letter dated August 26th 2020, asked the Zamfara State chapter of the party to set up the necessary machinery to invoke the relevant sections of the APC Constitution 2014 (As amended) against Alhaji Sirajo Garba, the chairman of the Marafa-led faction.