A five-man petition panel for the state congress of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has arrived in Kano state.
In Kano, two parallel state congresses of the APC were conducted in the state on Saturday, October 16, with Abdullahi Abbas and Ahmadu Danzago emerging as factional chairmen of the ruling party in the state.
While Abbas won as the consensus candidate and returned unopposed at the congress held at Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium, Mr Danzago emerged as the winner from a faction led by the former governor of the state Senator Ibrahim Shekarau also through consensus.
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However, at the inauguration of the panel on Saturday, the Chairman of the committee, Dr Tony Macfoy, said he would entertain only petitions from the congress held at Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium, which produced Mr Abbas.
According to him, the national headquarters of APC had sent him to listen to petitions on congress held at Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium only, adding that he would not entertain any complaints contrary to what he was assigned to do.
Dr Macfoy emphasised that as far as the national body of the ruling APC is concerned, no congress was held in Kano except the one conducted at the indoor stadium, adding that it was the election recognised by the national secretariat of the party.
The Chairman explained that the panel would be sitting for three days, from Saturday (today)to Monday, at the party’s secretariat in Kano, from 10 am to 4 pm.
