The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, is currently conducting its gubernatorial primary election in Lugard
Avenue, residence of the former governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Kwankwaso is contesting for the
presidential ticket of the party.
Daily Nigerian reports that the
exercise kicked off Tuesday morning.
It was gathered that only
delegates loyal to the Kwankwasiyya faction were accredited.
Kwankwaso’s son in-law, Abba
Yusuf, a former commissioner, may likely emerge unopposed as other aspirants
were not in the picture at the venue.
An aspirant outside Kwankwasiyya
group who traced the venue and is participating in the process is Jafar Sani
Bello.
Kano PDP governorship primaries
scheduled for last Sunday was later postponed by the national headquarters
pending resolution of some issues.
On Monday, security operatives
barricaded Maraba Cinema, venue of the exercise to avoid breakdown of law and
order.
Last week, the Police dispersed
members of the PDP caretaker committee while the officials were holding a
meeting at Sokoto Road in Kano metropolis.
The police explained that they
acted on a subsisting court order against the formation of the committee by the
party’s National Working Committee, NWC.
Justice NS Umar of Kano High
Court in an interim order dated August 28, ordered both the applicants and the
respondents to maintain the status quo ante, pending the hearing and
determination of the motion on notice.
The court ordered the respondents
and any other person or persons to restrain from interfering or tampering with
the tenure of the existing leadership of PDP in Kano.
Umar Mai Goro Rano and four
others dragged the national and state leadership of the PDP before Justice
Umar, challenging the plans to restructure the party’s executive committee.
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