A Kano State High Court has set aside the suspension of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) from the party.
This comes barely 24 hours after the NNPP’s National Executive Council, NEC, announced the suspension of the former Kano state governor, as reported by MUK TV.
On Tuesday, Justice Usman Naaana granted an interim injunction restraining Boniface Aniebonam, Agbo Major, and 16 other respondents from parading themselves as national officers or leaders of the party pending the hearing and determination of the motion of notice.
The judge also set aside “the purported suspension of Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as a member of the applicant (NNPP).”
The NNPP’s crisis deepened after the suspension of Kwankwanso on August 29, 2023.
Recall that a factional group of the NNPP led by Aniebonam and Major, suspended the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections for six months, accusing him of hobnobbing with opposition politicians outside the NNPP.
