PDP sacks Kano State Exco, receives Abacha’s son

In a move seemingly targeted at taking the party structure away from Governor Musa Kwankwaso, one of the seven governors that have been at the vanguard of opposition to Alhaji Bamanga Tukur’s leadership of the party, the national leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Monday dissolved the Kano State executive of the party.

This was on the same day the party received back into its fold Mohammed, son of the late head of state and dictator, General Sani Abacha.

Mohammed Abacha had failed in his attempt to contest for Kano governorship position under the platform of defunct Congress of Progressive Change in the last general election.

Mohammed Abacha

The party subsequently constituted a caretaker committee led by Alhaji Alhassan Kafayos as chairman and Mr. Andrew Musa appointed secretary to run the affairs of the party in the State.
They were immediately sworn-in by the party’s National Legal Adviser, Mr. Victor Kwom while Abubakar Mustapha, the National Organising Secretary of the PDP said other members of the committee would be appointed in Kano during the week.

While justifying the dissolution, the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, said the tenure of the dissolved exco had expired on August 15 and that there was need for a caretaker committee. He added that the caretaker committee was set up in accordance to the rules and provision of PDP constitution.

He also tasked the committee members to ensure that they address grievances among members in Kano and that the party must win the governorship election in the state in 2015.

On his part, Abacha said he joined the PDP in 2010 and left the party to join the defunct CPC the same year.

He said left CPC the same year as a result of what he described as lack of internal democracy in the party.