The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gwadabawa ward, Yola north LGA of Adamawa state, has suspended the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha.
The executives of the ward made this known while addressing the media at the Gwadabawa Ward office in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
Chairperson of APC Gwadabawa, Mu’azu Kabiru, said Mustapha failed to assist the party at the ward level in the 2023 general elections.
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar who is from the state, won the Yola north LGA with a total of 417,611 votes during the February 25 election.
In the governorship election, governorship candidate of the APC, Aisha Binani, won the LGA but not by a wide margin.
Kabiru said the SGF has failed to recognise the importance of the party’s executives in Gwadabawa who have worked to keep the ward united.
The ward chairman did not give a duration for the suspension.
However, acting chairperson of the APC in Adamawa, Samaila Tadawus, dismissed the suspension, saying that it was unconstitutional.
“We hereby state clearly that such suspension is unconstitutional, null and void and is of no effect, because the state working committee has warned the ward executives in the past to desist from these acts of targeting elders of the party,” Tadawus said.
The suspension or expulsion of any party member must be approved by their LGA, state working committee, and the national working committee (NWC) before it can stand.
